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Fascinating. Thanks for this. I was raised in Westmorland in the 50s and often wondered about the history of the strange county borders.

My friend and I were both born in the same town. Because she was born pre 1974, her birth certificate says Lancashire, but my post 1974 birth certificate says Cheshire. It *still* causes headaches for that generation when they have to state their place of birth for paperwork.

I live here! First time seeing places I regular see in real life on youtube :)

People from Carlisle sound absolutely nothing like people from Newcastle.

I remember well having to show papers to cross Duddon bridge, we've never accepted the meaningless Cumbria and long for the days when Cumberland people could light watch fires and keep out stray Lancastrians, ah the good old days.

Favershambles two stops from Shittingbourne change here for sheermess

As someone born in Barrow, Lancashire, in the late sixties, I can say that most people, certainly when I was growing up, felt a stronger affinity to the other industrial towns of Lancashire than they did to the smaller, more agricultural areas of the lake district. Much like other, bigger Lancastrian towns in the region, a good deal of the population of Barrow are third or fourth generation immigrants, mainly descended from the Scots and Irish who came to find work in the factories, which also distinguishes them culturally from the rest of Cumbria, and may well explain the accent difference too.

I remember in the 60s/70s the weather forecast on Radio 4 (the Home Service, as was), worked its way round the UK and always mentioned 'Cumberland, Westmorland and the Furness district of Lancashire', which always sounded, to me, as a bit complicated!

Yet another interesting relaxing watch. Ulverston is a really nice place and pleasant town and as you mentioned, birth place of Stan Laurel one half of two legends with a nice museum and pleasant surroundings. Went to Grange-Over-Sands once and found it a nice enough place to visit. Was never struck on Barrow on my visit there. I used to live in Lancashire in well known Blackpool and still a regular destination for me.

There are negroes everywhere nowadays.

It's not really an exclave, but more of a detatchment. If you check out historic Worcestershire, you'll find it had the most exclaves of any English county.

Twyford east of Reading in Berkshire was an exclave of Wiltshire prior to 1830

Interesting and persuasive - though the final sentence (using the cringeworthy term ‘His Majesty’) is a major irritation.

Crown Court hearings from cases in Barrow are still held in Preston, Lancashire

Cumbria is no more as an administrative county. It has been split into two unitary authorities, the first being a re-created Cumberland and the second being "Westmorland and Furness". The latter, though, contains a large of chunk of what used to be part of Cumberland pre-1974.

Lancashire over the sands.

That’s my home town! Dalton-In-Furness 💜

Leighton buzzard was not the site of the great train robbery at all! Mate are you serious?

I’ve lived in nearly all of these towns in my life, you need some help or at least try and visit a few more places!!!!

Awful wet place to live in the UK..

My mum was born in a cottage in Coniston and her birth certificate stated Lancashire… which I thought was an oddity. Great video. Liked and sub’d.

I'm from South Lakeland, which has recently been squished in with Furness to form Westmorland and Furness. Lancaster can have it back...

The Government at that time stated that the "new counties" were administrative areas only, and that the boundaries of traditional counties such as Lancashire had not been changed. Unfortunately, the media refer to these administrative areas all too frequently and ignore the fact that places such as Barrow-in-Furness, Liverpool, Manchester, Warrington, etc. are still in Lancashire. If administrative areas had not been called counties much of this confusion would have been avoided

Interesting thanks 😊

I contract for the NHS in this area, and they still use the old county borders for services.

Rains a lot

Lancashire itself was a cobbling-together of three different areas: Lonsdale-Furness (including Lancaster itself), Amounderness (the Fylde) and the big southern lump "between the Ribble and the Mersey" which subsequently came to contain by far the greater part of the population until the two main conurbations were detached in 1974. Just as odd as the Furness/North Lonsdale exclave is the peripheral location of the county town, a legacy of the shire's tangled origins.

Very interesting I didn't know about this before.

Manchester pre dates Lancashire by several centuries, I refuse to accept Lancashire. Manchester is my city and Greater Manchester is my county.

An excellent accidental discovery thrown up by RUclips - thanks. My grandmother was born (or at least registered, I think it was actually a nearby village) in Ulverston. Her mother was by then living in West Yorkshire, but all her 12 siblings were born in historic Lancashire, as my great-grandmother apparently went back to HER mother's for every birth! Only the first few of this enormous brood were born while great-grandmother still lived near Ulverston. Quite a journey in the late 19th/early 20th century. The family had been predominantly iron miners but moved to work in the woollen mills near Bradford as presumably the iron ore was giving out. I live in South Wales where I was born and haven't been back to the area for many, many years - should make the effort!

This was interesting, didn't know much about Barrow, despite the fact I can see it across a bit of sea from Blackpool.

'Cumbria' is only a bureaucratic and money gathering title.

How do you punish, dehumanise and inflict massive economic deprivation. Create Merseyside label the catholic majority part of Lancashire as criminals and thugs. No change today even when there children are butchered.

Carlisle accent is nothing like Newcastle.

I grew up in Lancashire until the 1974 changes put me in Merseyside. I now live in the even newer 2023 county of Westmorland and Furness... I'm surprised you didn't mention Three Shires Head in Little Langdale where the old counties met. As for accents, I woudl say that where I am in the north end of the Lakes, the accent is 'Cumbrian' and is a bit like a Lancashire accent but distinctly not the same as a Lancashire accent

I always call it Grange over Grass, the days of sands being there are long gone since the spartina grass arrived.

The original Lancastrian lands were all ocean facing, it surrounded a bay. It makes sense when you remember a lot of places around the U.K. were once more accessible by boat than by road. Goods weren’t carted cross country and eventually into large cities things were carted down to the nearest boat access and sailed to the cities.

The enclave was not contiguous with the rest of lancashire a term i learned of.tv on eggheads.Dave myers the Hairy Biker adopted a geordie type accent.I am guessing because of si being his good ..mate!But in doing this ,i think he betrayed his Barrow in Furness origins..i .am saying this without trying to be disrepectful to dave R.I.P

Dudley is another case. It used to be in Worcestershire even though it was surrounded by what was Warwickshire but is now West Midlands. It was many miles north of the rest of Worcestershire.

What about Broughton-in-Furness? That was in Lancashire until the re-organisation in 1974.

If you think us Carlisle folk sound like Geordies, you need to give yer head a long and vigorous shake.

I used to work in Florida with a guy from Lancashire. I can’t remember which town though. Great video talking history and showing us the towns. I really enjoyed that.

That dig at manchester town hall😂

Being new to Cumbria i knew of the geographical history of the county but not the reason why it was shaped like this.

I can see how a mild Carlisle (pronounced ‘Caarlaal’) accent could get mistaken for a Teeside accent, but certainly not a Geordie one. Whereas a strong Carlisle accent can be pinpointed straight away. Very different from nearby Penrith which has a gentler, rural, sing-songy twang to it. Unsurprisingly, The Kendal accent sounds like Penrith with a hint of Lancashire. The South Cumbria accent (formerly North Lancs o’t’ sands of course) sounds Lancashire with a hint of Cumbrian!

Historically, transport by water was often easier than by land, especially when that land is the Cumbrian mountains, so Furness probably had more communication with the rest of Lancashire than it did with Kendal or Carlisle

Good video, well presented...County boundaries now changed again

It was a result of Westminster attempting to reduce the power of the northern powerhouse and replacing it with a divided county . It had 68 MPs in its day largest of any county the county still exists only the administrative boundary was changed .

County exclaves and enclaves are not that rare. Before county borders were reorganised several times in the 19th and 20th centuries there were many especially in the Midlands.

Harking back to ww2 and the German bombing, my father was a 12/13 year old boy at the time. His best friend was killed in one raid when an incendiary bomb hit his house, went through the roof, the bedroom ceiling... then through his friend and the bed he was sleeping in.