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This site is dedicated to the history, people and places to be found within the ancient district of Copeland, otherwise known as Allerdale above Derwent, in the county of Cumberland.

Today, Copeland can be described as the land occupied by the 50 parishes lying in the South West portion of the modern County of Cumbria (post 1974). Before that year it was in the ancient county of Cumberland. This part of Cumberland most not be confused with the modern administrative district of the same name.

Prior to 1974 both Cumberland and Westmorland were separate counties in their own right but in that year they were combined together to make a larger administrative region named Cumbria. The county town of Cumberland was Carlisle and the County town of Westmorland was Kendal.

Copeland comprised an area of approximately 600 square miles and in 1801 it only had a population of 30,500 whilst by 1851 it had increased to 42,000 people. The district includes the towns of Cockermouth, Workington, Whitehaven, Egremont and Millom, along with Wastwater, Ennerdale, Loweswater, Crummock water & Buttermere lakes as well as the highest mountains found in England.