Westmorland is a county in northern England in the
Lake District. It is bounded on the north and northwest by
Cumberland, on the north by
Northumberland, on the east by
Durham and
Yorkshire, and on the south and west by
Lancashire. Westmorland has access to the sea through the estuary of the Kent, which enters
Morecambe Bay between the main part of
Lancashire and
Furness.
The county is mountainous, with tracts of moorland in the north and northeast. The chief rivers are the Eden in the north and the Lune and Kent in the south. There are vestiges of old Roman roads and camps. Westmorland was established as an administrative county in 1131.
