The story
From Old English folk name Westmōringas (“the people west of the moors”) + land. The civil parish in New Brunswick is named analogously to Westmorland County.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Westmorland
Today it means: A historical county in northwestern England (contained within Cumbria since 1974 and, since 2023, Westmorland and Furness) Full definition →