Researching local, family and house history

If you are researching your family or house history in this area, Penrith and Eden Museum has local photographic and archive collections that may help you. To request a search of the collections database contact the curators on the details below.

For more information on viewing the records for the five cemeteries in our area see cemeteries and churchyards.

Cumberland and Westmorland local, family and house history

For other major resources for Cumberland and Westmorland local, family and house history see:

• Cumbria Archive Service
• Cumbria Libraries
• Cumbria Family History Society
• Cumbrian Manorial Records
• Cumberland page on the Genuki website
• Westmorland page on the Genuki website
• Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society website

Local History Societies

• Appleby-in-Westmorland Society
• Bampton and District Local History Society
• Cumbria Local History Federation
• Lazonby History Society
• Orton and Tebay Local History Society
• Shap Local History Society

Museum Curators

• Contact: The Curators
• Email: museum@eden.gov.uk
• Telephone: 01768 865105
• Address: Penrith and Eden Museum, Robinson School, Penrith, Cumbria CA11 7PT