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westmorland
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Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 667
Land area (2000): 0.404855 sq. miles (1.048570 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.404855 sq. miles (1.048570 sq. km)
FIPS code: 84606
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 33.037923 N, 115.622292 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 92281
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Westmorland
Wikipedia
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.
Westmorland was a federal electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1968.
It was created by the British North America Act of 1867, and was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed into Westmorland—Kent and Moncton ridings.
It consisted of the County of Westmorland.
Westmorland was a constituency covering the county of Westmorland in the North of England, which returned Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency had two separate periods of existence.
Until 1885 It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. For the 1885 general election, Westmorland was divided into two constituencies: Appleby and Kendal, both of which had been parliamentary boroughs but were reconstituted as county constituencies. 1918–1983 The constituency was recreated as a single-seater for the 1918 general election and abolished for the 1983 general election.In the boundary changes in 1983 the southern part of the constituency became part of the new seat of Westmorland and Lonsdale and the northern area was transferred to Penrith and The Border
Westmorland was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It used a bloc voting system to elect candidates. It was abolished with the 1973 electoral redistribution, when the province moved to single-member ridings.
Usage examples of "westmorland".
When he discovered that Eleanor had a distant family connection to the earl of Westmorland, who is hand in glove with Northumberland in this conspiracy, he approached her about carrying a packet back to England.
It revealed that Westmorland, Norfolk, and others had planned to muster their men on the sixth day of this month.
For generations, the earls of Westmorland and Northumberland have ruled in their respective shires like petty kings.
Sussex, who serves as lord president of her council in the North, ordering him to summon Northumberland and Westmorland to the royal court, there to give account of themselves and their recent activities.
At first, seeing the deference with which their leader was treated by the most menial servants at Topcliffe, she thought the countess of Westmorland herself might have come to call.
I think, to learn that Lady Westmorland has sent one of her women from Brancepeth Castle with messages.
You know that Westmorland has already written to the pope, asking His Holiness for aid.
One look at Lady Westmorland and Susanna could not blame Marion for making such a hasty retreat.
Susanna was taller than Lady Westmorland and more sturdily built, but she did not feel that gave her any advantage.
With another abrupt movement, the countess of Westmorland resumed her former position in the chair.
The previous evening at Brancepeth, Lady Westmorland had worked the rebels into a frenzy.
The earl of Westmorland was a young man, no more than five and twenty, and devoted to his slightly older wife.
Calming herself, Lady Westmorland had spoken quietly to her husband, then briefly left the hall.
The battle cry was taken up by a few in the crowd, but enthusiasm was lacking until Lady Westmorland produced the banner of the Five Wounds of Christ.
In order to raise the hordes of followers needed to overthrow Queen Elizabeth, Lady Westmorland had embraced a more universal cause than personal gain.