Kirkby Stephen

Kirkby Stephen is a civil parish and small marketplace city in Cumbria, in North West England which traditionally, is a part of Westmorland. The metropolis is placed on the A685, surrounded via carefully populated hill us of a, and about 25 miles from the closest large cities, Kendal and Penrith. The River Eden rises 6 miles away in the peat bathrooms below Hugh Seat and passes through, almost unobserved, at the eastern fringe of the town. Kirkby Stephen has a parish council and is a centre for several smaller villages and parishes in the surrounding area, such as Nateby, Ravenstonedale and Mallerstang.

A network and council centre in the library, gives statistics and offerings on behalf of all of the neighborhood councils, and standard and local facts and centers. In 1352-53 Roger de Clifford, Baron of Westmorland, received a constitution from King Edward III, for a marketplace and two yearly gala's to be held within the town. This changed into reaffirmed by a constitution granted in 1605 to George, Earl of Cumberland, via King James I, for: "one market on Monday and two gala's yearly; one at the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday after Whitsuntide and the opposite on the two days next before the ceremonial dinner of St. Luke".