Cumberland
About Cumberland
Cumberland is an area of North West England which was historically a county. The county was bordered by Northumberland to the north-east, County Durham to the east, Westmorland to the south-east, Lancashire to the south, and the Scottish counties of Dumfriesshire and Roxburghshire to the north. The county included the city of Carlisle, part of the Lake District and North Pennines, and the Solway Firth coastline.
On the show — 14 mentions total
The Cumberland pencil museum says that in 1650, graphite was briefly more valuable than gold. They deliberately only mined it for short amounts of time in the year to keep the price up, because they had a monopoly on it and sent it all the way around the world.
from 80: No Such Thing As A Mousetrap-Remote-Control, 2015-09-25 at 00:02:24 · read transcript
Other times Cumberland came up
After this event there was remember remember the 5th of November the gunpowder plot and a couple of days after Thomas Percy was a fugitive he was involved in the conspiracy everyone was looking for him so he had connections in Northumberland, Cumberland and Yorkshire in the north of England and people thought that he might be sort of hiding out there so our hero John Lepton was sent to see if they could find him.
220: No Such Thing As A Million Dots, 2018-06-08 · listen
We don't have any wolves anymore. Pete, what are you up to? I'm just killing all the wolves in Britain. William the Conqueror would grant land to people in Northumberland and Cumberland on the condition that they would defend the land from any wolves and any Scotsman. He doesn't mean putting them second in the list. Yeah. Did you know, I sure you knew it's about the wool sack that is in the House of Parliament?
No Such Thing As Whistling At A Fact, 2023-08-03 · listen
I've just found the fact of the Chinese and counting using their finger joints. It's not a million that they can get to. It is one less than 10 billion. They're cool. I think the last few things that we've just said come from a book called Alex's Adventures in Numberland. It's by Alex Bellos. His book is extraordinary. I haven't read his new one, but the first one is amazing.
28: No Such Thing As A Man-Eating Clam, 2014-09-26 · listen
Surely after this event, there was Remember the 5th of November, the gunpowder plot and a couple of days after Thomas Percy was a fugitive, he was involved in the conspiracy, everyone was looking for him. He had connections in Northumberland, Cumberland and Yorkshire in the north of England and people thought that he might be sort of hiding out there. Our hero, John Lepton, was sent to see if they could find him.
No Such Thing As A Million Dots, 2018-06-08 · listen
More places from this episode
80: No Such Thing As A Mousetrap-Remote-Control put 2 places on the map.
- Cumberland Pencil Museum · United Kingdom
Coordinates: 54.7500, -3.0000