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4 BROUGH PARISH COUNCIL. Our October meeting was held on Monday 15th. A number of items were updated from last meeting's minutes. Recycling Centre. We are waiting for EDC to inspect the new area and organize the transfer of the collection bins to the new site. Defibrillator for Church Brough. It will be installed when the electricity supply has been rerouted. Back Lane, Brough. Cllr. Dew CCC reported that there will be a meeting on Monday 19th October, with Cumbria's Highways Dept., himself and our Clerk, to evaluate the traffic problem. Former Cllr. Malcolm Smith. Donations towards the restoration of the clock tower, Brough. Mrs. Smith's preference is for a commemorative plaque to be placed on the clock tower if at all possible. This will be followed up. Tennis Court. Church Brough. Cllr. Brocklehurst has made several inquiries, as to the cost of screening either end of the court. Further discussion will take place, as part of the Parish Plan and Budget Setting processes. Dog Fouling. Cllr. Ellwood met the dog warden, who was rather impressed with the cleanliness of the village. Cllr. McKenzie had spoken to Karen McSkimming, supplied her with some large stones, and there are now stones appearing around the Parish, painted by Karen, with anti dog fouling messages! They have been noticed and their success or otherwise will be monitored. Football Pitch. Our Clerk and Cllr. Allison met with two young people, anxious to re-establish Brough Football Club. They will set up a committee, and Cllr. Allison is prepared to offer help and advise. Jubilee Orchard. The plan of the orchard has now been received and a quote for pruning the trees has been received and accepted by Council. There is a dormant bank account and our Clerk will ask that it be transferred to the Council's account, as we are now meeting maintenance costs. A sign will also be commissioned. Cllr. Simpkins reported that EDC has secured £0.5m for energy conservation improvements across the District and Brough has been identified as an area that could benefit from measures such as improvements to loft insulation, double glazing, heat pumps etc. There is a deadline of March 2021. It will be promoted through The Way Magazine. Cllr Dew supplied information regarding the impact of Covid-19 in our area and he is also pushing for the re-opening of KS library. Snowmen. This event will take place on Saturday December 7th. Council had received a request for financial support from the youth group. We all agreed it was an excellent idea and agreed to donate £200 towards it. We also agreed that should it generate any income the youth group should keep that too There was of course more. For full details of this and all our meetings either contact our Clerk Andrew Bedford, on 017683 42394,come to one of our meetings, or go to our website www.brough-cumbria.info Everyone was thanked for their contributions and the meeting closed at 8.10pm. Ailsa McKenzie. Brough Parish Council.

5 Could all material for the Double December & January Edition be submitted by 20th November Copy may be e-mailed to the editor, Colin Edney: thewayeditor305 @gmail.com Please note that attachments to the email, should be in ‘word’ or ‘works’ format (not pdf.) please Alternatively, deliver by hand or post to “The Way "Four Winds, Church Brough, Kirkby Stephen, CA17 4EW Tel: 017683 42073

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7 PARISH COUNCIL SUMMARY OF LAST PARISH COUNCIL ZOOM MEETING 8th September 2020 The meeting welcomed Faye Hughes onto the Parish Council as a new representative for Warcop. Councillor Hauser gave an update of the proposed Warcop play area improvements. Currently there are 3 plans and quotes in which vary in equipment and design layout. Councillor Hauser will put together a questionnaire for parents and residents asking for their opinions as to what they would like to have in the play area. Fund-raising events will also be organised as well as putting in bids for grants. The chairman gave an update regarding the proposed dualling of the A66. The PC would prefer a northern route between Brough and Appleby bypass, which would go through ANOB and MOD land, and Natural have been an opponent against this route and are pushing for the southern route, promoted by Highways England, which is not the better option. A resident has written to Highways England along with the PC to make a case to push the northern route forward. The PC are not against the proposed dualling of the A66: they just want the best, environmentally cleanest and safest route for the parish. Dog fouling seems to be a problem again in the village of Warcop. The clerk will order some more signs to go up. The chairman is asking for all residents to sign up to the parish information sign up form which is available on the website: www.warcop.org.uk.

Sign up for Local News and Infomation Warcop Parish Council and Warcop Parish Hall would like to be able to provide you with more information about what is going on in our parish. There are some 220 households with nearly 600 residents living in the parish at Bleatarn, Sandford, Warcop and part of Coupland Beck. We would like to tell you about the work of the Parish Council, its meetings and current issues and priorities. We would also like to tell you about upcoming developments, events, activities or classes at the Parish Hall. Finally, we would like to seek your views on important issues from time to time through surveys. We have set up a sign-up page through Mailchimp to receive emails or text messages containing this information on your local website: www.warcop.org.uk. The sign-up form is on every page at the bottom left-hand side, and you can opt out at any time. Your information will be kept safe and not shared with others and conforms to GDPR regulations. Our aim is to get the majority of households who have email signed up so that we can contact as many local residents as possible. We promise not to bombard you with emails, and you can delete them if they are of no interest to you. We hope you will take the opportunity to sign up so that you feel better informed. Thank you in advance for joining our mailing list. David Keetley, Chair Warcop Parish Council

8 Teddies for Tragedies This year at least 500 knitted teddies were blessed at Musgrave Carol Service and sent to sick children in Africa and Greece. Many possess no Toys and having a Teddy to cuddle helps them get better. MANY THANKS to the knitters! Contact Heather Simpkins on 42476 or Joy Thompson on 41281

9 CHURCH OF ENGLAND SERVICES FOR BROUGH & STAINMORE November 2020 1st Sunday 10:30am New Morning Praise St Michael’s, Church Brough 2.30pm Evening Prayer St Stephen’s, Stainmore 8th Sunday 10:30am Remembrance Day St Michael’s, Church Brough 15th Sunday 2.30pm Holy Communion St Stephen’s, Stainmore 22nd Sunday Holy Communion St Michael’s, Church Brough 29th Sunday 10:30am Joint Benefice Service Kirkby Stephen Church

METHODIST CHURCH SERVICES November 2020 1st Sunday 10.30am Mrs J Worsfold Brough 10.30am Rev S Radford (Holy Communion) Brough Sowerby 8th Sunday 10.30am Local Arrangement Brough 10.30am Mr W Ousby Brough Sowerby 6.30pm Zoom Connexion Service 15th Sunday 10.30am Rev T Dent (Holy Communion) Brough 10.30am Own Arrangement Brough Sowerby 22nd Sunday 10.30am Mr H Radford Brough 10.30am Rev A Sterling Brough Sowerby 29th Sunday 10.30am Mr D Thackray Brough 10.30am Mr J Law Brough Sowerby

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Church of England Services - Heart of Eden Benefice St Columba’s, Warcop with St Theobald’s, Musgrave November 2020 1st Sunday 10.45am Holy Communion St Columba’s, Warcop 8th Sunday 10.00am Holy Communion St Theobald’s, Musgrave 15th Sunday 10.45am Holy Communion St Columba’s, Warcop 22nd Sunday 10.00am Holy Communion St Theobald’s, Musgrave 29th Sunday 10.45am Churches Together St Columba’s, Warcop Advent Service (Holy Communion)

METHODIST CHURCH SERVICES November 2020 1st Sunday 10.30am Rev. J Betts Warcop 8th Sunday 10.30am Remembrance Service Warcop 6.30pm Zoom Connexion Service 15th Sunday 10.30am Mr R McGregor Warcop 22nd Sunday 6.30pm Rev A Sterling Warcop 29th Sunday 10.45am Advent Service Warcop Parish Church

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FEEDING THE COMMUNITY This has been an unprecedented month for arrivals in our porch. In particular the food bank donations have doubled, no doubt helped by the publicity generated by October’s copy of The Way.

BOXES OF HOPE You still have time to put together a shoe box for Boxes of Hope. Sorting day is Saturday 14th November. If you can’t quite fill one, just bring it along anyway as we have a number of items as “spares” which we can use as top ups. Once again thank you to all those avid knitters who have brought along items to go in the boxes.

TEDDIES FOR TRAGEDIES Teddy numbers are also still growing and these will go to Joy Thompson for blessing at the Musgrave Church service after Christmas. Children need the teddies to help them recover from traumas such as living in a refugee camp or being ill in hospital. Let me know if you need a pattern/wool/stuffing.

Many, many thanks to everyone who has left things in our porch - particularly those of you who remain anonymous.

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Farmers Market In the spirit of “Buy It In Brough” the Brough Farmers Market was in full swing this month. Knipey and Tony, both purveyors of exceptional quality home grown poultry and meats, also offered guided tours to the darkest interior of the Memorial Hall. Venturing into unexplored depths jauntily masked visitors found wonders untold! A discerning Shoppers Paradise!! As seen on TV, Neil’s stall held everything an explorer would wish; notebooks for jotting down bus times or quick sketches of The Bay; cards to tell friends how marvellous the BFM is and shopping bags to carry all their purchases. Moving on, the track led to a buzzing collection where Bee representatives Helen and Peter told the wonders of bee world. They explained the millions of bee-miles involved in their wax wraps, candles and honey. They felt glad to have left the other workers back at the hive. Some of the Queens were a little autocratic they intimated. Further along the travellers came to Julie’s jungle clearing, a wonderful chance to stock up; sausage rolls, cheese and onion pies, chocolate cakes and many other marvels. People had to be restrained, …..they had further to travel…… A few native baubles and trinkets and Ann and her bucket and out of the scary wild back in the open again. Next Safari: Saturday morning 21st November Allan Quartermaine

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Little Asby Common & Great Kinmond This is a lovely four mile walk at any time of the year, but be prepared for inclement weather as there is no shelter available. Much of the walk is off the beat- en track, and there is some seriously difficult limestone pavement to negotiate, so walking poles are recommended. The flora and fauna are interesting on this limestone plateau, I recently surprised a fox sunbathing amongst the grikes. From Kirkby Stephen take the road, then first left over the bridge, and then after three miles turn left to Little Asby. Pass Little Asby lane end and park just beyond the cattle grid ¼ mile further on. Facing the cattle grid follow the wall to the right for 300 yds. to a wall corner. Turn right to follow a line of telegraph poles. After the third pole veer right to reach a cairn on the top of a low hill. Continue down the hill on a grassy track in the direction of Sunbiggin Tarn, and follow this track when it veers right and down to a road. Cross the road and follow another grassy track for 300 yds. to another road. Turn left for 100 yds and turn right at a Public Footpath signpost. The path is indistinct, so just aim for the bottom of a green field in ½ mile. There is a gated stile in the wall here. Do not cross, but turn right and follow the wall uphill. At the first corner note the boulder of Brockram, named Mitchell’s Stone for some obscure reason. Continue by the wall for ½ mile. Some difficult limestone outcrops can be passed by turning away from the wall to find an easier route. Follow the wall around a corner, and then to a cairn at the summit of Great Kinmond Hill, the highest point on Great Asby Scar. Follow the fence away from the wall for 200 yds. and then turn right across limestone pavement to a cairn, taking great care. This is a good opportunity to study the rich flora in the deep ‘grikes’. From here drop down to a wall corner across more pavement which gradually gives way to grass. Turn right to follow the wall. Conditions underfoot become a lot easier, and after 1 mile you reach a dip and a final uphill back to the start point. Roamin Robin

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17 Warcop in 1851 Mannix’s Directory of Westmorland (For Brough see October Edition) The Parish of Warcop consists of four townships, Warcop, Sandford, Bleatarn and Burton. Near the Eden, it is very fertile; nearer the fells it is wild. In 1841 (Mannix was writing this in 1850, the year before the next census, 1851), the parish had 705 people in it. Warcop itself is a well-built village halfway between Appleby and Kirkby Stephen. From 13th - 16th centuries its Lord of the Manor was a Warcop of Warcop (his coat of arms has a cup on it, as he’d assumed that the -cop in the place name meant cup. It means “look out hill”, warth-cop). It descended by sale and marriage to the Preston family who now have it. Their manor house was Warcop Tower; its burial place inside the parish church was in the south part of the church. On the church’s north side was St John’s Aisle, the place where Burton’s folk sat and were buried (if well off). In the 13th century, Warcop church was given to Shap Abbey as consolation for the Scottish raids’ effect on the Abbey’s finances. Mr Preston as Patron chooses the next Vicar. Warcop Vicarage is old, and has a moat round it, for defence in times of raids. The vicarage was rebuilt in 1820. Warcop Hall where Mr Preston lived “was embosomed in a rich grove of sycamores. Warcop Castle on east edge of the north half of the village, once covered more than an acre but (says local tradition) was carted off to build Kirkby Stephen’s church tower in 1598 - 1606. Part of the castle’s walls visible in 1650’s were 15 feet thick. 200 yards south of it is Kirksteads, a field where a chapel stood as some stones from a building have been found there. On the Common stood an ancient cross, removed when the Common was enclosed (split up into fields) and re-erected in the village where it still is (1850) Near Warcop Hall is a Wesleyan Association Chapel built in 1844 and elsewhere in Warcop is a Wesleyan Chapel built in 1821. Both were Methodists in different ways. Warcop’s Parish Feast is the Rushbearing 29th June, and is very like Musgrave’s. Brough Hill Fair, the largest in the North of England, is in Warcop Parish, on the open Common, 30th Sept - 1st October. It began in 1329 but was small scale till the 18th century. Sandford’s soil is fertile and the village is well built. Its stone circle (at the road-end on A66) was removed years ago to build with. Near Coupland Beck bridge was a round tower and on the Appleby side was an alms house. Sandford’s Common was enclosed in 1772, and Warcop Common was enclosed in 1815, when all those proving their right as commoners received varying sized blocks of land free, and freehold, each to fence or wall two sides. If unable to do this they lost their rights to them. At the road end to A66 are (1850) three large burial mounds, one of which was

18 Continued from page 18 opened by the Vicar at the Bishop of Durham’s request in 1766. Its finds includ- ed an iron urn(sic). Burton is on the underside of the fell, two miles North of Warcop and has six houses in it. Its Lord of the Manor in 1720 was Thomas Wybergh, whose wife (Burtons owner till she wed him) bore him 22 children. (Burton is part of the Warcop Ranges and has gone). Bleatarn township has a small village 1½ miles south of Warcop and the hamlet of Birks. It belonged to Byland Abbey (York, in the hills east of Thirsk) from 12th - 16th centuries. This Abbey had an outpost in Bleatarn at Wolverdale in a field called Sawbridge, with two fish ponds and a park (with high earth bank and fence). Bleatarn Common and the Abbey park were enclosed in 1790. Birks Chapel and burial ground once belonged to the Sandemanians and then to the Independents (i.e. Congregational Church), but by 1850 was derelict. Bleatarn is good for limestone. In it are 16 farmers (4 of them freeholders) and 1 stonemason (Christopher Farrer). In Burton are 5 farmers all tenants. In Sandford are 20 farmers (5 are freeholders, 2 are women) 1 joiner, 1 lady and 3 pubs. In Warcop are the Squire, the Vicar, 2 millers (Robinson Bros), 1 joiner, 6 shops, 3 pubs, 21 farmers (6 of them freeholders). No school or Railways yet. Jeremy Godwin

Walk of the Month – Little Asby Common In the above walk last month, I referred to ‘Mitchell’s Stone’. I have been con- tacted by a Mr. Cooper who has kindly let me have information on its possible origin. The stone was almost certainly known in earlier times as the Mickle Stone, or Great Stone. Possibly one of the Ordnance Survey surveyors misheard the dialect word (mickle) for great or big. Like a number of erratic's it was used as a boundary stone. It was useful in times before maps to have a boundary marker that was permanent equally important could not be moved. Mitchell’s Stone stands on the boundary of Asby Winderwath manor, one of four which are now (in whole or part) of Asby parish. With grateful thanks to Mr. Cooper. Roamin Robin

Mitchell’s Stone. Mitchell’s Stone was so named in 1865, but is not on Jeffreys 1770 map of Westmorland (it may have been there, so named even so). A search of Great Ashby’s Parish register may lead to Mitchell. Jeremy Godwin

19 USEFUL TELEPHONE NUMBERS

CHURCH OF ENGLAND CLERGY Revd. Judy Polkinhorn, Brough with Stainmore (Kirkby Stephen) 017683 41473 Revd. Clive Hicks, Warcop and Musgrave (Appleby ) 017682 54409 METHODIST CLERGY Revd. Stephen Radford, 50 South Road, Kirkby Stephen. 017683 71202 CHURCHWARDENS (CHURCH OF ENGLAND) St Michael’s, Brough with Stainmore: Mrs Judy Dobson 017683 41439 St Stephen’s Stainmore: Mrs Rosemary Bainbridge 017683 41285 St. Columba’s, Warcop: Mrs J Keetley 017683 41390 St. Columba’s, Warcop: Mrs J Featherstone 017683 41033 St Theobald's, Musgrave: Mr John Alderson 017683 42911 CLERKS TO PARISH COUNCILS Brough: Mr. Andrew Bedford 017683 42394 Musgrave/ Warcop Mrs. Heidi Strong, 017683 41102 Stainmore: Miss Janet Walton, [email protected] 079662 48501 CLERKS TO BROUGH SOWERBY PARISH MEETING Mr Bryan Palphreyman [email protected] 07713 031087 DOCTORS & HOSPITALS Brough Health Centre 017683 41294 Kirkby Stephen Health Centre 017683 71369 Appleby Health Centre 017683 51584 Cumberland Infirmary, Newtown Road, Carlisle. 01228 523444 Penrith New Hospital, Bridge Lane, Penrith. 01768 245555 Westmorland General Hospital, Burton Road, Kendal. 01539 732288 VETERINARY SURGEONS Pendragon Vets Ltd, Hamilton House, St Luke's Rd, Kirkby Stephen. 017683 71359 Old Hall Veterinary Centre, Cross Croft Industrial, Estate, Appleby. 017683 51507 SCHOOLS Brough Primary School 017683 41284 Warcop C of E Primary School 017683 41471 Kirkby Stephen Grammar School 017683 71693 POLICE ALL ENQUIRIES (this deals with all calls that are not emergencies) 101 GENERAL Post Office, Brough, Monday to Friday 9.00 - 1.00pm, Warcop, Tuesday only 2.00 - 3.00pm Tourist Information Centre, Kirkby Stephen 017683 71199 Community & Council Centre Kirkby Stephen 017683 71775 Library Kirkby Stephen 017683 71775 St Michael’s Church Hall Bookings Tucker Dobson 017683 41439

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