Ireby is a village in the Allerdale borough of

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, England. with a population of around 180. Historically, it was in the county of Cumberland, since 1974 it has been in

. It was granted a

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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 Wigton is a market town in the Allerdale borough of Cumbria, England. Historically in Cumberland, it lies just outside the Lake District in the borough of Allerdale. Wigton is at the centre of the Solway Plain, between the Caldbeck Fells an ...

, away, and

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and Keswick, both away. Nearby villages include Uldale, Torpenhow and

Boltongate Boltongate is a village in Cumbria, England. It is situated about north-east of Cockermouth. It is located just outside the Lake District National Park. All Saints' Church has a stone tunnel-vaulted roof said to be the only one of its kin ...

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is away.

Amenities

Ireby has two village halls, the main ''Globe Hall'' and the smaller ''

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Hall''. Ireby has a music festival attracting a wide range of popular musicians and capacity audiences. In 2010 the Festival had

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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

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Workington Workington is a coastal town and civil parish at the mouth of the River Derwent on the west coast in the Allerdale borough of Cumbria, England. The town was historically in Cumberland. At the 2011 census it had a population of 25,207. Locat ...

. In the December 2019 general election, the

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candidate for Workington,

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, 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 had won the seat in the constituency in every general election since 1979.The

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had only been elected once in Workington since

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, at the 1976 by-election. Before

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, its residents were covered by the North West England European Parliamentary Constituency. For

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purposes it is in the ''Boltons

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'' of

Allerdale Borough Council Allerdale is a non-metropolitan district of Cumbria, England, with borough status. Its council is based in Workington and the borough has a population of 93,492 according to the 2001 census, increasing to 96,422 at the 2011 Census. The Boro ...

and the ''Bothel and Wharrels Ward'' of

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. The village forms part of the

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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.

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