* The Kirkby Lonsdale Show

He was the Celtic sun god and had shrines from Aquileia on the Adriatic to Kirkby Lonsdale in England.

One, at Lancaster, was dedicated ( in the dative ) to Deo Ialono Contre Sanctissimo (" to the holiest god Ialonus Contre "); another, at Overborough in Kirkby Lonsdale, to Deo San Gontrebi (" to the holy god Gontrebis ").

* 5 Urban Districts: Ambleside, Bowness on Windermere, Grasmere, Kirkby Lonsdale, Windermere

* South Westmorland RD absorbed Kirkby Lonsdale UD, at the same time losing an area to Lakes UD.

Hargrave was born in Greenwich, England, the second son of John Fletcher Hargrave ( later attorney-general of NSW ) and was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland.

Kendal is around 8 miles ( 12 km ) from the M6 motorway, and is bypassed on the west by the A591 road, linking it to Windermere, Keswick and the A590 leading to Barrow, as well as being the terminus of the A65 road to Kirkby Lonsdale and a destination on the A6 road to Penrith.

Kirkby Lonsdale () is a small town and civil parish in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England, on the River Lune.

During the Roman occupation, a Roman road followed the course of the river Lune, linking the forts at Low Borrow Bridge ( near Tebay ) and Over Burrow ( south of Kirkby Lonsdale ).

Kirkby Lonsdale developed at a crossing point over the River Lune where several drovers ' and packhorse routes converged.

In 1093, Ivo de Taillebois ( Baron of Kendal ) gifted the church at Kirkby Lonsdale to St Mary's Abbey in York, which held it until the Dissolution.

Thereupon the Abbey and all its possessions, including St Mary's Church at Kirkby Lonsdale, were granted to Trinity College, Cambridge, which retains patronage to this day.

The steep incline of Mill Brow with its fast-flowing ( now culverted ) stream was the industrial heart of Kirkby Lonsdale, with several mills using water power for grinding corn, bark and bone, carding wool, manufacturing snuff, making bobbins, fulling cloth and sawing timber.

Kirkby Lonsdale railway station opened in 1861 and closed to passengers in 1954.

Today, Kirkby Lonsdale bustles with activity, with a weekly market, many local events and traditional shops.

Mitchelgate in Kirkby Lonsdale

Devil's Bridge over the River Lune in Kirkby Lonsdale

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Ownership of the land containing modern-day Kirkby – established as the West Derby Hundred in the 11th century – passed through many hands until 1596, when the Molyneux family purchased the hundred in its entirety.

During this time, Kirkby Industrial Estate was steadily expanding to become one of the largest in England until, at its peak in 1971, the estate provided employment for over 26, 000 people.

In the first decades after its composition leading performers of the tenor part included Gervase Elwes and John Coates, and Louise Kirkby Lunn, Elena Gerhardt and Julia Culp were admired as the Angel.

It is on the Kirkby branch line from and means the service ( which is provided by Northern Rail, who also manage the station ) runs through three counties on its journey from Wigan to.

The name Kirkby was used by the Furness Railway company during the construction of its Cumbrian Coast Line, and was the name they gave to the station which serves these hamlets.

Families with the name originate from the area surrounding Malham and Kirkby Malham.

Nearby Kirkby Town changed their name to Knowsley United in 1988 and moved to Alt Park, the former home of Huyton Rugby League Club.

7 km running northwest from Appleby the railway reached Kirkby Thore station, then just over 2 km west-northwest to Temple Sowerby station south of the village of the same name.

The Kirkby part of the name is a common prefix, simply meaning a settlement by a church, while Overblow is a corruption of Oreblow, a reference to the village's iron-smelting past.

The name Kirkby was chosen almost at random by the train company for the station and was eventually used for the collection of villages.

The name Kirkby is much older ; the parish of Kirkby Ireleth is listed in the Domesday Book and is of Norse origin.

The original name proposed for the area was Kirkby.

It received the Royal Assent on 11 June 1792, and was entitled An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal, from Kirkby Kendal in the county of Westmoreland, to West Houghton in the county palatine of Lancaster, and also a navigable Branch from the said intended Canal at or near Barwick, to or near Warton Cragg, and also another navigable Branch, from, at or near, Galemoss, by Chorley, to or near Duxbury in the said county palatine of Lancaster.

The survey party was led by Syd Kirkby, and included Terence James Elkins.

In July 2009 work to stabilise a length of embankment near Kirkby Thore and remove a long-standing permanent speed restriction was undertaken.

The NE line was the branch known as the Eden Valley Railway between Kirkby Stephen and Eden Valley Junction on the West Coast Line near Clifton

In August 1678, King Charles was warned of this alleged plot against his life by the chemist Christopher Kirkby, and later by Tonge.

A Royal Ordnance filling factory – ROF Kirkby – was established in 1939 and completed in 1941.

The Kirkby Urban District was created in 1958.

However, the Master ( Charles Kirkby Robinson ) was opposed and St Catharine ’ s eventually refused.

Firby Court on Firby Road in Richmond was developed for the branch of family which moved there via Kirkby Fleetham and thence Catterick, all of which happened concurrent to the Bishops ' Wars and English Civil War, with some outpouring in County Durham.

On one occasion the village sweep who was to cycle on his three-wheeler, challenged a well-known local runner to race from Shilton Hill to Kirkby, the runner to have the length of the hill start.

The runner was easily passed down the Kirkby Lane and retired.

He was ordained in 1618, and through the influence of John Williams became rector in 1621 of Stoke Hammond, Buckinghamshire, and Kirkby Underwood, Lincolnshire.

Ben Chapman was born in Kirkby Stephen, the son of a farm labourer, he was educated at the Appleby Grammar School on Battlebarrow ( B6542 ) in Appleby.

After attending Staff College, he was first posted to understudy the Base Air Staff Office ( BASO ) at 55 Base, RAF East Kirkby before taking up his posting as BASO at 54 Base, RAF Coningsby.

Waddington was born in Burnley, Lancashire, and educated at two independent schools in North West England: Cressbrook School in Kirkby Lonsdale ( formerly in Westmorland, since 1974 in Cumbria ) and Sedbergh School ( formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire and also now, since 1974, in Cumbria ).

Born in Merseyside, he was educated at the local Huyton Secondary School, the Kirkby College of Further Education, and the Liverpool John Moores University.

The phosphorus was then moved in sealed railway tanks to Oldbury and to Kirkby.

Gareth Kirkby was the managing editor from 1996 to 2005.