The ''Cumberland Pacquet, and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser'' was a regional British

broadsheet A broadsheet is the largest newspaper format and is characterized by long Vertical and horizontal, vertical pages, typically of in height. Other common newspaper formats include the smaller Berliner (format), Berliner and Tabloid (newspaper ...

newspaper which was published in

Whitehaven Whitehaven is a town and civil parish in the Cumberland (unitary authority), Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. It is a port on the north-west coast, and lies outside the Lake District National parks of England and Wales, National Park. ...

Cumberland Cumberland ( ) is an area of North West England which was historically a county. The county was bordered by Northumberland to the north-east, County Durham to the east, Westmorland to the south-east, Lancashire to the south, and the Scottish ...

, between 1774 and 31 December 1896. The paper was founded by Robert Gibson, and its age made it for some time the oldest newspaper published in the country of Cumberland.

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Publications established in 1774 Publications disestablished in 1896 Weekly newspapers published in the United Kingdom {{Newspaper-stub