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
Beeswing, Dumfries and Galloway pp. 29-52 Henderson, J.C., Crone, B.A., and Cavers, M.G. (2003) "A condition survey of selected crannogs in south west Scotland", "Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society", 77, pp. 79-102 L. (1874) "Arthurian Localities: Scotland", "Notes and Queries", s5-II, 36, pp. 181-182 Williams, J. (1971) "A Crannog at Loch Arthur, New Abbey", "Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society", 48, p. 122 Beeswing, Dumfries and Galloway Beeswing is a small village in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Scotland. It was formerly known as Lochend in reference to its position near Loch