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Cumbria

Cumbria
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About Cumbria

Cumbria is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders the Scottish council areas of Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders to the north; the English ceremonial counties of Northumberland and County Durham to the east, North Yorkshire to the south-east, and Lancashire to the south; and the Irish Sea to the west. Its largest settlement is the city of Carlisle.

On the show โ€” 19 mentions total

The head of Cumbria Tourism said, 'This is taking the Mickey and we want the top of our mountain back.'

from No Such Thing As The Number Six, 2018-02-23 at 00:43:43 ยท read transcript

Other times Cumbria came up

  1. But it was a massive market, wasn't it, the graphite? If you stole graphite, you would be sent to Australia as punishment. And they used to have like armed guards, chaperoning their horses and carts with a graphite down to London, didn't they, from Cumbria? And even the miners, as you were mining it, you would have two men with blunder bosses next to you to make sure you weren't slipping it into your pockets.

    80: No Such Thing As A Mousetrap-Remote-Control, 2015-09-25 ยท listen

  2. They do the work for him so they don't have to sort of desecrate the area and potentially ruin ancient sites. They may not think that like ancient Egyptians were just all eating earthworms and stuff, is that? That's happening in the UK as well. There are moles basically working at a site in Cumbria. It's an old Roman forge that's protected, so you're not allowed to dig there if you're a human. Moles are not bound by such rules.

    377: No Such Thing As The Mole Street Journal, 2021-06-11 ยท listen

  3. House, I got a Picasso in the back room I mean that's quite cool when value is added through destruction on other things being accidentally destroyed bungling builders as they refer to when they mess up accidentally destroyed the wrong house in Cumbria it destroyed a woman's home instead of the dilapidated house a few streets away contractors were supposed to demolish another house 500 yards away on another street but set to work on Mrs Beattie's home without checking they had the right address.

    85: No Such Thing As Michelangelo's Snowman, 2015-10-30 ยท listen

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Coordinates: 54.5000, -3.2500

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