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Cumbria Archive Service has four Archive Centres. The Cumbria Archives Service map shows areas of Cumbria covered by each office.

• Cumbria Archive Services Map
  

The Archive Service cares for parish registers, other church records, wills, electoral registers, maps and plans, poor law records, title deeds, and photographs. The archives of many families, businesses, local authorities, solicitors, societies and schools also help form a fascinating record of all aspects of life in the county.

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Carlisle (Cumberland) Archive and Local Studies Centre
Lady Gillford's House
Petteril Bank Rd
Carlisle, Cumbria CA1 3AJ UK
Telephone: 01228 227 284
Email:carlisle.archives@cumbria.gov.uk
Website

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Whitehaven Archive and Local Studies Centre
Scotch St.
Whitehaven, Cumbria CA28 7NL UK
Telephone: 01946 506 420
Email:whitehaven.archives@cumbria.gov.uk
Website

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Libraries

Links to libraries throughout Cumbria, including Cumberland

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Carlisle Library
11 Globe Lane
Carlisle, Cumbria CA3 8NX UK
Telephone 01228 606060
Email: libraries@cumbria.gov.uk
Website

The Carlisle Library is located within the Lanes, a pedestrian shopping area about half a mile from the Castle. It's a modern, well equipped facility with good general holdings. They have microfilm census returns for most of the available years, and they are adding additional film readers. Most of the interesting material is not on open shelves but can be asked for at the 2nd floor desk across from the microfilm readers.

Museums

Tullie House Museum

Tullie House Museum
Castle Street
Carlisle, Cumbria CA3 8TP UK
Telephone: 01228 618718
E-Mail: enquiries@tulliehouse.org
Website: Tullie House Museum

The Tullie House is a museum and art gallery with an emphasis on the area's Roman and turbulent border history. If your family was involved with the reivers, it's worth a visit. It is immediately across from the Castle and they also have a postal research service which seems to specialize in researching reivers and outlaws.

For a long list of Cumbria museums, go to List of museums in Cumbria in Wikipedia.