Eden Valley & North Pennines
Penrith town centre

Penrith, in the Eden Valley, is one of the best known towns in Cumbria with charter dating from 1223. The town was the capital of old Cumbria; now an important market town and a centre for the local and national farming community. Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy lived here for a while and were pupils at the local school. Nowadays Penrith has a mixture of old and new including some shops which have been trading for two hundred years.