Have you ever looked at the historical borders of Shropshire / Staffordshire / Worcestershire / Warwickshire / Gloucestershire in the West Midlands? It's truly a Baarle-Hertog style patchwork of insane exclaves, some being three counties away from the main county making it hard to even work out which one belongs to which.

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By land it was an exclave but was Morecombe Bay part of Lancashire thus linking it by sometimes flooded and sometimes exposed sand?If I remember correctly a tiny sliver of Westmoreland came down to Morecombe Bay too,so maybe it was cut off.I always find the accent around that north west coast interesting as it can sound Northumbrian despite being on the totally opposite side of England.

I was born in this Lancashire enclave now part of Cumbria, and as I often point out to persons calling me Cumbrian, I am a Lancastrian, as stated on my birth certificate, there are still many Red Rose Flags flying, the area has never really accepted the boundary changes to Cumbria 1974 😊

hi i lived in grange in the 60s and 70s i rember the county boundries changing in the early 70s we became part on cumbria made up of north lancs westmorland and cumberland must do a trip bk up north

Born in Blackpool Lancashire moved to Warrington Lancashire in 1970 my family came from Widnes Lancashire and it'll be a cold dark day in hell when I'll claim to come from Cheshire.

How can something be so interesting and so boring at the same time. And that's not a critique of this video

Great video,very interesting

Bishop stortford is crazy

No Mention of the Muncher ?

The creation of 'Cumbria' was the most obvious example of social engineering. Furness belongs to Lancashire!

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 KZbin - 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.