Posted by Owen Roberts on November 22, 2011 at 17:35:14 user OwenRoberts.
In Reply to: Re: Ransome in Furness? posted by Robert Hill on November 22, 2011 at 09:59:26:
This division extended to Windermere also. Before 1973 the lake area comprised two different administrative counties. Windermere was split; the northern part of the lake and the eastern shore including Bowness were part of Westmoreland whilst the western shore and the southern part of the lake (and also the Coniston area as Robert mentions) were part of a detached piece of Lancashire known as the Furness Enclave. Just to complicate the geography still further, to the west of Coniston you find the old county of Cumberland.