Windermere (town)

When a railway line was built to Windermere, the lake became a popular tourist destination. A town was built around this and was named after the lake.

Hello everyone; I'm interested in hearing you feedback on this subject.

Since saxon people astablised themselvs in Cumbria about 1,000 years ago, the county's norse and celtic genetic backgronds have been more or less denied, however if you look more carfefully into Cumbria's placenames and history you will find a lot of evidence of the old celtic langauge called Cumbric.
Cumbric gradually evolved from medievil welsh, as the areas we now call Lancashire and Cumbria(cumbric: Sîr Gairivryn and Cumbri/Cwmbru) were once part of the celtic sub-kingdom of Rheged. Rheged was then broken up, leaving the strongest kingdom of Cumbri (what we today call Cumbria) to fight against the saxon invaders. Cumbria's king known as Urien sucessfully faught off the saxon invaders, and if it wasn't for his unexpected assasination - present day Cumbria would probably be speaking it's own celtic language as well as English, and would probably have conserved it's own celtic traditions, possibly even owing it independance from England.
I bring this point up to state this largely unknown and important piece of Cumbrian history.

So the question is - what now?

Well our language 'is' and has been dead for the past 900 years, however at least three reconstructions of the language are currently taking place, two being mainly based on welsh and with welsh spelling, while the other (Linden's) taking upon a different spelling system.
The point of this message is not to ask for you the Cumbrian public's participation, but simply to say that Cumbria did have a language and celtic culture, and if we can preserve Wordwsworth's and Beatrix Potter's history, then why not our moore ancient history as well?