Ireby, Cumbria
Ireby is a village in the Allerdale borough of Cumbria, England. with a population of around 180. Historically, it was in the county of Cumberland, since 1974 it has been in Cumbria. It was granted a market charter in 1237. Location. It is located above the River Ellen, just outside the Lake District National Park, in the area locally called Back o'Skiddaw, with views to the Caldbeck Fells. The nearest towns are Wigton, away, and Cockermouth and Keswick, both away. Nearby villages include Uldale, Torpenhow and Boltongate. Caldbeck is away. Amenities. Ireby has two village halls, the main  Globe Hall and the smaller "Women's Institutes Hall". Ireby has a music festival attracting a wide range of popular musicians and capacity audiences. In 2010 the Festival had Kate Rusby playing. The village pub was reopened in 2016 after a long period of closure, it was a haunt of John Peel. Governance. Ireby is in the parliamentary constituency of Workington. In the December 2019 general election, the Tory candidate for Workington, Mark Jenkinson, was elected the MP, overturning a 9.4 per cent Labour majority from the 2017 election to eject shadow environment secretary Sue Hayman by a margin of  4,136 votes. Until the December 2019 general election The Labour Party has won the seat in the constituency in every general election since 1979.The Conservative Party has only been elected once in Workington since World War II, at the 1976 by-election. Before Brexit, its residents were covered by the North West England European Parliamentary Constituency. For Local Government purposes it is in the "Boltons Ward" of Allerdale Borough Council and the "Bothel and Wharrels Ward" of Cumbria County Council. The village forms part of the civil parish of Ireby and Uldale and has its own Parish Council along with  Uldale, Ireby and Uldale Parish Council. In popular culture. A documentary series, "Cumbrian Tales", was commissioned by the BBC in 1998, but taken off air after one episode due to "conflict of interest". The six-part series was eventually screened on ITV in 1999.