This is a list of articles related to the English county of Cumbria. See also the :Category:Cumbria for links to the Cumbrian pages (e.g., towns, villages, railway stations, places of interest, people born in Cumbria, etc.) People See category Cumbria below for people born in Cumbria. This lists people not native to Cumbria but who had connections with Cumbria. Writers William Wordsworth – England's most famous poet, born in Cockermouth, lived in Grasmere John Ruskin – writer and conservationist – lived at Coniston W. G. Collingwood – writer and secretary to John Ruskin Arthur Ransome – writer of Swallows and Amazons Robert Southey – Lakes Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Lakes poet Hartley Coleridge – writer, and son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas de Quincey – associated with the Lake Poets Beatrix Potter – children's author and conservationist Hugh Walpole – author – lived at Keswick Alfred Wainwright – guide book author – see List of Wainwrights John Cunliffe – author of Postman Pat, an animated BBC series featuring a postman in the fictional village of Greendale (inspired by the real valley of Longsleddale in Cumbria). The author lived in Kendal. Paul Kendall author of The Best Bacon Butty in Cumbria, and a number of other books unrelated to Cumbria. Artists William James Blacklock – 19th century landscape artist Josefina de Vasconcellos – sculptress Henry Holiday – Stained glass window designer Edward Burne-Jones – Stained glass window designer William Morris – Stained glass window maker Kurt Schwitters – German artist who came to live in Ambleside L. S. Lowry – artist who created many drawings of Cumbria Winifred Nicholson – painter, who lived near Lanercost Ken Russell – film director, who lived in Borrowdale, Keswick for a while. Several of his films included local scenes. Architects Sir Robert Smirke – architect of many major buildings, including Lowther Castle, and Carlisle citadel Sydney Smirke – architect of several important buildings in Whitehaven Anthony Salvin – restorer and architect of several important buildings in Cumbria, including Lanercost Priory, Hutton-in-the-Forest, Muncaster Castle, and Derwent Isle House Thomas Rickman – architect – various, including Rose Castle and Scaleby Castle Giles Gilbert Scott – architect – Ambleside church William Butterfield – architect – several churches Augustus Pugin – architect – railway cottages at Windermere station C.F.A. Voysey – architect – houses at Bowness-on-Windermere and Kendal Philip Webb – architect – Brampton, St Martin's Church Hardwicke