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Welcome to CASCAT: the Cumbria Archive Service Catalogue

Our online catalogue provides details of many of our holdings at our four offices in Barrow, Carlisle, Kendal and Whitehaven.

The catalogues can be searched in a number of ways detailed below: choose one of the search options from below, or click on Help for further information.

Quick Search
Search text in all available catalogues of all Cumbria Record Offices

Advanced Search
Refine your search by using any combination of collection reference, title or dates of documents, Record Office and level of catalogue description

Browse
Use the drop down menus to browse particular groups of records held by all or any of the Cumbria Record Offices.

Index Search
Search the terms used to index our collections by name of person, corporate body (businesses, organisations, families), place or subject and follow the links to relevant catalogues

More information on collections covered by our database can be found in our About the catalogue page.

Catalogues of archives held by the Cumbria Record Offices currently on the Access to Archives (A2A) web site will gradually be added to our online catalogue. For full information on our holdings you should therefore search both our online catalogue and the A2A web site.

A2A: Access to Archives Web Site