Qualla: Ireby https://qualla.com/ireby-cumbria en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Ireby https://qualla.com/ireby-cumbria Ireby: Introduction https://qualla.com/ireby-cumbria/ The area behind Skiddaw has a local name: Back o'Skiddaw. The phrase carries some of the affectionate shrug Cumbrians reserve for the parts of their county that everyone else overlooks. Ireby is up there, a village of about 180 people sitting above the River Ellen and just outside the boundary of the Lake District National Park. The Caldbeck Fells fill the view. The nearest towns are Wigton, seven miles away, and Cockermouth and Keswick, both twelve. None of them are close. In 1237, Ireby was granted a market charter, which marks it as somewhere that once mattered more than it does now, and the bones of that older economy still show in the layout of the place.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/x/ireby-cumbria-wp/gctx-ireby-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ireby: The Charter and Its Legacy https://qualla.com/ireby-cumbria/ A market charter in 1237 made Ireby a market town under the law, with the right to hold a regular gathering for trade. In medieval Cumberland this was no small thing. Charters were granted sparingly and carried real weight: the right to hold a market drew farmers, traders, and tr...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/x/ireby-cumbria-wp/gctx-ireby-the-charter-and-its-legacy.mp3 0:06 2 full Ireby: Music and Memory https://qualla.com/ireby-cumbria/ Ireby has a music festival that has done what country festivals only sometimes manage. It attracts well-known musicians, fills its venues, and remains anchored in the place that hosts it. In 2010, the festival was headlined by the English folk singer Kate Rusby, one of the most r...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/x/ireby-cumbria-wp/gctx-ireby-music-and-memory.mp3 0:06 3 full Ireby: Boundaries Drawn and Redrawn https://qualla.com/ireby-cumbria/ Ireby's administrative history follows a familiar Cumbrian pattern of councils dissolved and reconstituted. From 1894 to 1974 it was part of the Wigton Rural District of Cumberland. From 1974 to 2023 it sat in the Allerdale district of the new county of Cumbria. In April 2023, bo...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/x/ireby-cumbria-wp/gctx-ireby-boundaries-drawn-and-redrawn.mp3 0:06 4 full Ireby: Cumbrian Tales https://qualla.com/ireby-cumbria/ In 1998, the BBC commissioned a documentary series called Cumbrian Tales, which had Ireby among its subjects. After only one episode aired, the series was pulled from the schedule because of a reported conflict of interest. ITV eventually broadcast all six episodes in 1999, givin...

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