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Cumbria has many useful building stones.
Useful but costly
Sandstones
Gritstones
Slate
For those able to
afford them
Cumbrian
Vernacular
Buildings:
built largely of
material that
was easy and
cheap (if not
free) to obtain.
Rock outcrops,
boulders from
boulder clay,
river cobble
and earth.