Cumbria Yorkshire, Lancashire, and the Scottish council areas of Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders. The boundaries are along the Irish Sea to Morecambe Bay in the west, and along the Pennines to the east. Cumbria's northern boundary stretches from the Solway Firth from the Solway Plain eastward along the border with Scotland to Northumberland. It is made up of six districts: Allerdale, Barrow-in-Furness, Carlisle, Copeland, Eden and South Lakeland. For many administrative purposes Cumbria is divided into three areas — East, West and South. East consists of the districts of Carlisle and Eden, West consists of Allerdale and Copeland, and
Ae, Dumfries and Galloway comes from the Old Norse word "aa", meaning 'water, river'. Close to the village is the local area headquarters of the Forestry Commission. The commission has been instrumental in developing a mountain biking centre, which provides access to cycle trails of various difficulty. To cater for visitors, there is a small café and a bike shop. Ae, Dumfries and Galloway Ae (pronounced ) is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, south west Scotland. The village is located on the edge of a man-made conifer forest, and is approximately north of Dumfries. Robert Chambers wrote of the Ae area in 1826,