Qualla: Jurby https://qualla.com/jurby en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/v/jurby-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Jurby https://qualla.com/jurby Jurby: Introduction https://qualla.com/jurby/ Photo credit Finn Bjorklid, Public domain. Jurby's name comes from djura-by, the Old Norse for a deer farm or animal park, and the syllables have been worn down by eight centuries of Manx tongues into something softer. The earliest written form is Dureby, recorded in 1291; by 1588 it had taken its current shape. The same root produced Derby in England, but the lordly transplant of that name to the Isle of Man arrived much later, through the surname of the Stanley Lords of Mann at Derbyhaven. Jurby is older, quieter, and tied to the land in a way the borrowed name never quite captured. It is one of the seventeen parishes of the Isle of Man, set on the north-west coast in the traditional North Side, in the sheading of Michael.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/v/jurby-wp/gcsv-jurby-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Jurby: Geography of the Flat Edge https://qualla.com/jurby/ Photo credit Harvey Milligan, CC BY-SA 4.0. The northern plain of the Isle of Man tilts gently into the Irish Sea here, and the highest points in the parish are coastal dunes barely 39 metres above the waves. Jurby borders Andreas to the east, Lezayre to the south-east, and Ballaugh to the south. The 2021 census recorded a...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/v/jurby-wp/gcsv-jurby-geography-of-the-flat-edge.mp3 0:06 2 full Jurby: The Airfield's Three Lives https://qualla.com/jurby/ Photo credit Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0. Jurby Airfield was originally an RAF training base built during World War II, and it remained a training establishment through the 1950s, when officer cadets on short-term commissions arrived for three-month courses. Once that purpose faded, the parish reinvented the same patch o...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/v/jurby-wp/gcsv-jurby-the-airfields-three-lives.mp3 0:06 3 full Jurby: Saints, Vikings, and Music https://qualla.com/jurby/ Photo credit Padyer at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Jurby's first recorded church was a tiny 8th-century chapel dedicated to St Cecilia, the patron saint of music, and St Cecilia's Day on 22 November remained the parish festival for centuries. Several Viking carved crosses and gravestones survive within the church, and medieval ob...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/v/jurby-wp/gcsv-jurby-saints-vikings-and-music.mp3 0:06 4 full Jurby: The Museums in the Hangar https://qualla.com/jurby/ Photo credit Andrew Wilkinson from London, CC BY-SA 2.0. An old aircraft hangar now houses the Jurby Transport Museum, dedicated to the buses, lorries, trams, and locomotives that once moved people and goods around the island. Nearby, the Isle of Man Motor Museum was officially opened by the Lieutenant Governor on 22 May 2015. The two ...

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