22-754: Kirkbride may refer to: Kirkbride, Cumbria , a village in England Alec Kirkbride (1897–1978), British diplomat Anne Kirkbride (1954–2015), British soap opera actress John Kirkbride (musician) (born 1946), Scottish guitarist and songwriter John Kirkbride (athlete) (born 1947), British middle-distance runner Julie Kirkbride (born 1960), British MP for Bromsgrove Ronald Kirkbride (1912-1973), Canadian writer Thomas Story Kirkbride (1809–1883), American psychiatrist Kirkbride Plan , an architectural design devised by Thomas Story Kirkbride The B. B. Kirkbride Bible Company, Inc., publisher of
44-478: A Grade II* listed building , is situated approximately 100 yards to the west of the A595. Its site was used, amongst other purposes, for supplying provisions and materials from "Old Carlisle" to Hadrian's Wall . It is thought that the farm site was the first "Mile Station" from Old Carlisle. Regarding Fiddleback, the building was originally fortified to repel invading Celts. It later become a place of worship. Constructed in
66-574: A road led north-east to the nearby fort of Coggabata on Hadrian's Wall at Drumburgh , on the shores of the Solway Firth . The third, longer, road led roughly south-south-east to the large Roman fort at Old Carlisle , just south of Wigton . The road did not follow the modern direct route to Wigton, but instead skirted the east side of the River Wampool past Biglands and Gamelsby , and then turned south. More recent history includes construction of
88-505: Is Old English for a demarcated plot, a "homestead" or "village", so Wigton is "the hamlet belonging to Wicga". On the River Wampool and Wiza Beck ( beck being a dialect word meaning "brook" or "stream" – from the Old Norse bekkr ), the market town of Wigton is an ancient settlement and evolved from a pre-medieval street plan, which can still be traced today. The Romans had a cavalry station, Maglona, known locally as Old Carlisle , just to
110-508: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Kirkbride, Cumbria Kirkbride is a village and civil parish in northern Cumbria , England. The civil parish population at the 2011 census was 489. Significant ancient historical remains close to Kirkbride include the Kirkbride Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall some miles to the north. Both Hadrian's Wall in this western reach and
132-595: Is the Innovia Films Ltd (locally known as The Factory ) in the centre of the town. In 1936 the British New Wrap Co Ltd was formed in Wigton, Cumberland, and production of cellulose film began at the site which had previously been a jam-making facility, and then set up to produce "artificial silk" or Rayon . In 1936 the company changed its name to British Rayophane Ltd . The company's main products are: Wigton
154-463: Is the headquarters of the British National Party . Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC North East and Cumbria and ITV Border . Television signals are received from the nearby Caldbeck TV transmitter located south east of the town. Local radio stations are BBC Radio Cumbria on 95.6 FM and Greatest Hits Radio Cumbria & South West Scotland on 96.4 FM. The town
176-775: The Lake District . Wigton is at the centre of the Solway Plain , between the Caldbeck Fells and the Solway coast. It is served by Wigton railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line , and the A596 road to Workington . The town of Silloth-on-Solway lies 12 miles (19 km) to the west, beyond Abbeytown . Wigton is "Wicga's tūn". "Wicga" is an Old English pre-7th-century personal name meaning "a beetle" (as in " earwig "), while "tūn"
198-603: The Thompson Chain-Reference Bible . Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Kirkbride . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kirkbride&oldid=1218184290 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
220-509: The "four acts of mercy". St Mary's Church dates from 1788, but there was a church on this site from the 12th century. (source: 'A New Illustrated History of Wigton' ) A private secondary school, the Wigton School (also called the Friends' School or Brookfield) was founded to the north of the town in 1815 with an initial enrolment of eight pupils. After reaching a maximum enrolment of 250 or so in
242-515: The 1920s. Wigton today is a market town, with livestock auctions being held regularly at Hopes Auction Company. The main employer is Innovia Films . The town has its own secondary school, called The Nelson Thomlinson School , which is a comprehensive with close links to the Innovia factory. In 2004 the town was the first settlement in the United Kingdom to enforce a curfew on teenagers under
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#1732852544169264-526: The 1970s and 1980s, the school closed, following sustained drop-off in student numbers and, finally, damage by fire. The appearance of the church owes much to the vision of Rev John Ford (father of the broadcaster Anna Ford ) in the 1950s, when he had gravestones laid flat and the interior painted in the present colours. Highmoor Bell tower, built during the Industrial Revolution and completed in 1887, played tunes three times daily. Fiddleback Farm,
286-551: The 2017 election to eject the previous MP Sue Hayman by a margin of 4,136 votes. For Local Government purposes it is in the Cumberland unitary authority area . Other than by car there is a public transport option from Carlisle, the Stagecoach 93 bus [REDACTED] Media related to Kirkbride, Cumbria at Wikimedia Commons Wigton Wigton is a market town in Cumberland , Cumbria , England. It lies just outside
308-581: The Church of St Bride; first recorded in 1189, it is surrounded by the area designated as Kirkbride Roman Fort. The Kirkbride war memorial also stands in the grounds of the church. Kirkbride was part of the parliamentary constituency of Workington . In the December 2019 general election , the Conservative candidate for Workington, Mark Jenkinson , was elected as MP , overturning a 9.4 per cent Labour majority from
330-498: The County of Carlisle, building Carlisle Castle in Carlisle in 1092 for its administrative centre. Odard de Logis became William II 's Sheriff of Carlisle and was made Baron of Wigton about 1100 AD when it became a Norman barony. Wigton gained its market charter in 1262. The de Logis barons changed their surname to de Wigton around 1208 but the male line of the family died out in 1348, so
352-664: The Kirkbride fort were originally of turf and timber construction, probably due to the paucity of available stone in this part of England around the Solway Plain ; the Wall was later rebuilt in stone. In 122 AD , the Romans constructed Hadrian's Wall , which incorporated the Vallum earthwork. It is thought that Kirkbride Fort predates Hadrian's Wall and was built as part of the Stanegate frontier. The Wall
374-471: The age of 16. It was in place for two weeks, and its aim was to reduce the amount of vandalism in the town centre. It followed nightly vandalism campaigns, which included smashed shop fronts, as well as intimidation of elderly members of the community. The curfew attracted national attention, with the local secondary school receiving visits from agencies such as Sky News. It had some effect, with less vandalism taking place ever since. Wigton's principal employer
396-602: The countryside. In the period of late antiquity after Roman rule, Wigton was within the native British kingdom of Rheged . Probably of Anglian origin, Wigton was an established settlement in the Kingdom of Northumbria long before the Normans arrived in the area. Wigton and most of then Cumberland were a part of Scotland in 1086 when the Domesday Book was written for William I , so are not included in it. The Norman invaders created
418-611: The manor passed to the Barony of Cockermouth. Although the town's layout is generally Anglian or medieval, its architecture is mainly in the 18th-century Georgian style which remains largely intact. In the middle of Wigton's market place is the George Moore Memorial Fountain built in 1872; of particular interest are the four bronzes around the fountain, the work of the Pre-Raphaelite sculptor Thomas Woolner . These depict
440-435: The shape of a fiddle, it was built about 300 years ago, along with two other buildings in the shape of musical instruments by a wealthy and eccentric land-owner. During renovation works, the skeleton of a cat was discovered above one of the old entrance doorways. Another Grade 2 listed building, constructed in the shape of an accordion , still stands. A third, built in the shape of a banjo, was demolished for unknown reasons in
462-458: The south of the town with a large vicus (civilian settlement) associated with it. The fort was approximately half-way between Carlisle and the Roman settlement of Derventio (now known as Papcastle ), linked by the Roman road that is now the A595. From this location they could react to incursions from north of Hadrian's Wall , using the Roman road to sally east or west before traversing northward across
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#1732852544169484-434: Was designed primarily to prevent entrance by small bands of raiders or unwanted immigration from the north, not as a fighting line for a major invasion according to Stephen Johnson. LIDAR photography has proved the existence of three Roman roads linking Kirkbride Roman fort with other Roman forts. The primary road is a continuation of the Stanegate road west from Carlisle (Roman Luguvalium ) to Kirkbride. From there
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