Uldale

Uldale is a small village in Cumbria, England. It is about 5 miles (8 km) from Caldbeck, 2 miles (3 km) from Ireby with which it forms the civil parish of Ireby and Uldale together with Aughertree. The Uldale Fells are in the vicinity,[1] and to the southeast are Chapelhouse Reservoir and Over Water. It is located just inside the Lake District National Park.

Uldale

St James Church, Uldale
Uldale
Location within Cumbria
OS grid referenceNY2436
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townWIGTON
Postcode districtCA7
Dialling code016973
PoliceCumbria
FireCumbria
AmbulanceNorth West
UK Parliament

Uldale has a place in literature as the occasional home of Judith Paris, a heroine of the Herries Chronicles, the saga of a Cumbrian family written by Hugh Walpole in the 1930s.

Buildings

St. James' Church (the "old church") is located 1 mile (2 km) outside Uldale, yet only 0.5 miles (1 km) from Ireby.[2] It has a Grade II listing.[3] A school was founded in 1726 on the current site of Dale House, but later moved to a larger building funded by the Cape family and many local famIlies.

The Old Church of England School was built in 1895 and served as the village School for over 100 years until closure in the 1990s. The building was set for demolition but was saved in 2010 when it was transformed into a tea room + gallery.

Governance

Uldale is part of the parliamentary constituency of Workington. In the December 2019 general election, the Tory candidate for Workington, Mark Jenkinson, was elected the MP, overturning a 9.4 per cent Labour majority from the 2017 election to eject shadow environment secretary Sue Hayman by a margin of 4,136 votes.[4] Until the December 2019 general election The Labour Party has won the seat in the constituency in every general election since 1979.The Conservative Party has only been elected once in Workington since World War 2, at the 1976 by-election.[5]

Before Brexit, its residents were covered by the North West England European Parliamentary Constituency.

For Local Government purposes it is in the Boltons Ward of Allerdale Borough Council and the Bothel and Wharrels Ward of Cumbria County Council.

The village forms part of the civil parish of Ireby and Uldale and has its own Parish Council along with Ireby, Ireby and Uldale Parish Council.[6][7]

Notable people

See also

References
  1. Nuttall, John; Nuttall, Anne (1995). The Tarns of Lakeland: East. Cicerone Press Limited. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-84965-246-9. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
  2. "Uldale - St James' Church". Visit Cumbria. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  3. Church of St James, Ireby and Uldale, britishlistedbuildings.co.uk, retrieved 30 June 2014.
  4. "Workington parliamentary constituency – Election 2019".
  5. "A vision of Britain website – general elections section". Retrieved 27 April 2012.
  6. "Ordnance Survey Election Maps". www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  7. "Ireby & Uldale Parish Council".



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