Lowther returned to the family estates after the war, dwelling in Clifton Hall, Westmorland.
Appleby East station, built by the North Eastern Railway was nearby; it closed in 1962 but retains the potential for connection to the Eden Valley Railway.
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Appleby's main industry is tourism, due to its history, remote location, scenery and closeness to the Lake District, the North Pennines, Swaledale and Howgill Fells.
Arthur William, the younger son of William Garnett of Westmoreland, inspector-general of inland revenue, was born 1 June 1829, and educated at Addiscombe Military Seminary, where he obtained his first commission in 1846, and proceeded to India in 1848 as a lieutenant of the Bengal engineers.
Local towns and villages covered by Eden FM Radio include Penrith, Appleby-in-Westmorland, Langwathby, Greystoke, Shap, Skelton and Melmerby.
Akister was born in Brighton in England, and was educated at Staveley Public School and Windermere Grammar School in Westmorland, and Salford Technical College.
He was christened on August 4, 1799 in Crosby Ravensworth, Westmorland, England, son of William and Jane (Wilkinson) Dent.
In 1866 the monument was moved to its present site in Exchange Flags to allow for an extension to the Exchange Buildings, and the Westmorland stone base was replaced by one in granite.
The novel follows the struggles of engineer John Custance and his friend, civil servant Roger Buckley, as, along with their families, they make their way across an England which is rapidly descending into anarchy, hoping to reach the safety of John's brother's potato farm in an isolated Westmorland valley.
Under Henry III Moulton became an important royal agent in the north; between 1217 and 1218 he was an itinerant justice for Cumberland, Westmorland, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Northumberland.
Nicholas Freeston (1907-1978), Award winning Lancashire poet, born in Kendal
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In 2013, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Eric Pickles formally recognised and acknowledged the continued existence of England's 39 historic counties, including Westmorland.
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In September 2011, the Westmorland Association, a local society which promotes the county's identity, successfully registered the Flag of Westmorland with the Flag Institute.
Woodhouse was born at Clifton, Westmorland, England, the son of Richard Woodhouse, a station master, and his wife Mary, née Titterington.
Westmorland | Appleby-in-Westmorland | Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland | John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland | Earl of Westmorland | Westmorland Street Bridge | Westmorland County, New Brunswick | John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland | Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland | 7th Earl of Westmorland | Westmorland County | Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland | North Westmorland Rural District | John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland |
13 June - George Fox preaches to a large crowd on Firbank Fell in Westmorland, leading to the establishment of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
The Gazette entry gives many addresses: Queen Anne’s Gate and Victoria Chambers, Westminster; Aberdare; Tondu; Meathop, Westmorland; Frampton Cotterell, Gloucestershire; The Hague; Cross Street, Manchester; 46 Dulwich Road, Herne Hill; Ulverstone; Grange-over-Sands; and Wellington, New Zealand.
Historically within the county of Westmorland, the village straddles the A6070 road between Crooklands and Carnforth, at a point around midway between Lancaster and Kendal, and is in the shadow of the nearby limestone outcrop known as Farleton Knott.
The Countess Pillar is a 17th-century monument near Brougham, Cumbria, England, between Penrith and Appleby.
The village is named after the River Eamont and straddles the boundary between the ancient counties of Cumberland and Westmorland.
This family descends from Sir Richard Lowther (1532–1607), of Lowther Hall, Westmorland, who served as Lord Warden of the West Marches.
On his retreat from Scotland, Balliol sought refuge with the Clifford family, land owners in Westmorland, and stayed in their castles at Appleby, Brougham, Brough, and Pendragon.
Gilpin's Westmorland Extra Dry Gin is a super-premium London Dry Gin distilled in London in small batches using the traditional pot still method with spring water from Cartmel in the English Lake District.
The church is part of the Diocese of Carlisle, Archdeaconry of Westmorland & Furness and the Deanery of Windermere.
Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (1863–1931), British MP for Norfolk North-West and Nottingham South, Lord Lieutenant of Westmorland
Sir Henry Fane, MP (1650–1706) only son and heir of George Fane (1616-1663) and a grandson of Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland.
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Henry Fane of Brympton (1669–1726), a great-grandson of Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland and father of Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland.
Other works included design of Marton House near Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria (1822), Blagdon Hall (1830) in Stannington near Morpeth, Northumberland, the church of St John the Baptist in Leeming, North Yorkshire (1839) and the restoration of St Nicholas House, Richmond, North Yorkshire.
James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale (1736–1802), electoral magnate in northern England, Member of Parliament for Cockermouth, Cumberland, Haslemere and Westmorland
He was descended from the knightly Pickering family of Killington, then in Westmorland, and was married to Elizabeth Greystoke.
General John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland GCB, GCH, PC (2 February 1784 – 16 October 1859), styled Lord Burghersh until 1841, was a British soldier, politician, diplomat and musician.
Mallory was the son of William Mallory and his wife Dorothy Bellingham daughter of Sir James Bellingham of Levens, in Westmorland.
Sir John Weston, 1st Baronet (1852–1926), British Member of Parliament for Kendal, 1913–1918 and Westmorland, 1918–1924
Educated at Heversham Grammar School, Westmorland, and Hertford College, Oxford, where he read law, Fletcher worked for various newspapers before being appointed news editor and then deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph.
Although Thomas Parr inherited properties in the north including Kendal Castle in Westmorland, the Parr's resided at Parr House which was located on The Strand in London.
The North Westmorland Rural District, which was an administrative district in Westmorland in the late 20th century.
Sir Philip Musgrave, 2nd Baronet (1607–1678), MP for Westmorland and a Royalist army officer
As a young man, Westmorland was among those who attended King Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in June 1520 and at his meeting with Emperor Charles V at Gravelines in July.
Reverend Robert Addison (1754–1829) was born in Heversham, Westmorland, the 3rd son of John and Ellinor (Parkinson) of Plumbtreebank.
In August 1265 he was made keeper of Westmorland, in October he was given custody of Carlisle Castle, made High Sheriff of Cumberland and trusted with subduing London on behalf of the king.
Sarah Fane, Countess of Westmorland (née Sarah Anne Child; 28 August 1764 – 9 November 1793) was the only child of Robert Child, the owner of Osterley Park and principal shareholder in the banking firm Child & Co.
The Musgrave family had been settled at Musgrave in Westmorland for many centuries.
(This volume covers the area of the modern administrative county of Cumbria: i.e. the historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, and the Furness region, historically part of Lancashire.)
The 10 minute-long film presents a first-hand account of a team of British Railways workmen freeing a goods train stuck in a snowdrift on the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway at Bleath Gill in the Pennines on the border between County Durham, Yorkshire and Westmoreland.
Lady Westmorland died at 58 Queen Anne’s Street in Marylebone, London on 21 July 1910, aged 39, and was buried in the Rosslyn Chapel.
The paper is now owned by the Newsquest group, within which it forms part of Westmorland Gazette Newspapers, which includes the weekly freesheet South Lakes Citizen and other titles.
Thomas Knyvet, 1st Baron Knyvet (1558–1622), English nobleman, MP for Westmorland and Westminster