Upperby
suburb and ward of Carlisle, in Cumbria, England, UK
Upperby is a former village, now a suburb of Carlisle, in the Cumberland district, in the English county of Cumbria. The ward population taken at the 2011 census was 5,476. In 1870–72 the township/chapelry had a population of 595.
Location
It is 1.4 miles (2.3 km) to the south-east of the city centre of Carlisle and is near the River Petteril. The original village extended along what is now St Ninian's Road from the Cross Keys Inn, on Upperby Road at the west end of the village, to an alabaster mill by the Petteril, now an industrial site by the railway bridge. St John's Church, built 1840, is immediately north of the historic village.
Features
Upperby has a park with a boating pool called Hammond's Pond which had originally been claypits known as "Clarty Dubs". What is now Scalegate Road was then known as "Black Lonning".
St. Ninian's Well, a wellhead by Sara Losh on the site of an ancient well, located in Brisco and not in St.
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