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    Default Is there any Celtic influence left in Cumbria in NW England?

    Would you say there's any native Brythonic culture still existing in Cumbria, be it ethnic, cultural or maybe linguistically to an extent?

    I'm tempted to believe that since the Britons lasted a little longer in that region of England until the Germanic Anglo Saxons eventually came to dominate all over the vast majority of England, maybe some semblance of British Celtic culture might still exist in the modern day, especially given its proximity to Strathclyde in SW Scotland, a Brythonic (albeit culturally mixed) kingdom and the Isle of Man and Ireland, which of course are culturally Goidelic (Gaelic) for the most part. Key elements of British Celtic influence within that region of England lasted much longer, well into the middle ages with the Cumbric Language, but after that language died away, were there still villages/areas where inhabitants traced their heritage back to the Native Britons rather than the Anglo Saxons/Vikings/Normans like the rest of the English people?

    Would the Pennines acted as a barrier, preventing the Anglo Saxons moving east to west? Or could they have crossed if they wanted to, but given the less than satisfactory farming conditions on the other side, such as Wales is to the English Midlands, there was no point in doing so?

    What would you say?

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    I would think, the kingdom of Rheged wasn't absorbed by Northumbria until the mid 8th century, and the POBI survey showed distinct clusters either side of the pennines.

    The best farming land in the north is low lying east Yorkshire, so Cumbria is in a way like a version of Wales.

    I think there is an old sheep counting verse still spoken, which is brythonic, places name show saxon settlements, but mainly in low lying areas.

    Farr to say Cumbria was/very strongly celtic I'd say.

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    My Granda's family lived in the area of River Glenderamackin and Blencathra.

    That part of Cumbria has a few Celtic place names.

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