The league is run by the

British Amateur Rugby League Association The British Amateur Rugby League Association (BARLA) is an association for social and recreational rugby league. It works jointly with the Rugby Football League through the RFL Community Board. History BARLA was created in 1973 in Huddersfiel ...

(BARLA). Teams from the Cumberland league can apply for election to the

National Conference League The National Conference League (known as the Kingstone Press National Conference League for sponsorship reasons) is the top English amateur rugby league competition in the Rugby Football League pyramid, and as such is the leading amateur rugby l ...

if they meet minimum criteria.

History

The

Cumberland Cumberland ( ) is a historic county in the far North West England. It covers part of the Lake District as well as the north Pennines and Solway Firth coast. Cumberland had an administrative function from the 12th century until 1974. From 19 ...

League has been in existence, in one form or another, since 1899. Millom, in 1897, was the first club in the county to defect from rugby union to Northern Union, they were followed a year later by Workington, Maryport, Whitehaven, Seaton, Brookland Rovers and Wath Brow. The first three named joined with Lancaster and the Furness clubs Barrow, Dalton and Askam to form the North Western League in 1898/99. The first champions were Millom who finished just ahead of Barrow. On 10 May 1899 the Cumberland clubs met at the Grapes Hotel in

Workington Workington is a coastal town and civil parish at the mouth of the River Derwent on the west coast in the Allerdale borough of Cumbria, England. The town was historically in Cumberland. At the 2011 census it had a population of 25,207. Loca ...

and agreed to form a Cumberland Senior League for the following season. They voted W.E. Mason (Whitehaven) to Chair the new competition and R. Nixon (Maryport) was elected Hon. Secretary. The participants in that first season, 1899/1900, were Brookland Rovers, Maryport, Seaton, Whitehaven, Whitehaven Rec and Workington. Neither of the Whitehaven clubs nor Workington have any connection with

Whitehaven Whitehaven is a town and port on the English north west coast and near to the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. Historically in Cumberland, it lies by road south-west of Carlisle and to the north of Barrow-in-Furness. It is th ...

and

Workington Town Workington Town R.L.F.C. is a semi-professional rugby league club playing in Workington in west Cumbria. Their stadium is Derwent Park, which they share with Workington Comets, a speedway team. They became Rugby League Champions in 1951 and ...

who currently play in the

Co-operative Championship The Championship, known as the Betfred Championship for sponsorship reasons, is a professional rugby league competition. It is the Rugby Football League Championship Second Division, second-tier competition organised by the Rugby Football Lea ...

and Championship One respectively. The first winners were the Maryport.

2014 structure

*NB:Maryport A failed to complete the season

2013 structure

2012 Structure

Division One

Division two

*NB: Seaton Rangers A and Broughton Red Rose from division 1 and Salterbeck Storm from division 2 failed to complete the season.

Past winners

Cumberland Senior League

Division Two

*1993-94 Glasson Rangers *1994-95 ''Unknown'' *1995-96 Wath Brow Hornets *1996-97 ''Unknown'' *1997-98 Flimby *1998-99 Seaton Rangers *1999-00 Maryport *2000-01 Seaton Rangers *2001-02

Wath Brow Hornets Wath Brow Hornets are an amateur rugby league football club from Cleator Moor, Cumbria. The club currently competes in the top division of the National Conference League. The club also operates a number of academy teams. History The game of r ...

*2002-03 ''Unknown'' *2003-04 Maryport *2004-05 Carlisle Saints *2005-06 Great Clifton Lions *2006-07 Distington *2007-08 Cockermouth Titans *2008-09 Lowca *2009-10 Cockermouth Titans *2010-11 Seaton Rangers A *2012 Flimby

Dale Campbell Savours Cup

*2005-06 Great Clifton Lions *2006-07 Glasson Rangers *2007-08 Cockermouth Titans *2008-09 Lowca

External links

BARLA Official Website
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