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Westmorland
Westmorland
(; formerly also spelt
Westmoreland
; even older spellings are
Westmerland
and
Westmereland
) is an area of
North West England
and one of the 39
historic counties of England
. It formed an
administrative county
from 1889 to 1974, after which the whole county was administered by the new administrative county of
Cumbria
. In 2013,
Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Eric Pickles
formally recognised and acknowledged the continued existence of England's 39 historic counties, including Westmorland.
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