Appleby-in-Westmorland is a market town and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, with a population of 3,048 at the 2011 Census.

The town's name derives from the Old English æppel-by, meaning "farm or settlement with apple trees".

[6] In the Second English Civil War Appleby was placed under a siege, in which the Regicide Major General Thomas Harrison was wounded.

Appleby's main industry is tourism, through its history, remoteness and scenery, and its proximity to the Lake District, North Pennines, Swaledale and Howgill Fells.

[14] Appleby's economy is based mainly on the service sector, in small firms, eating houses and pubs.

They included William Pitt the Younger, who was MP for Appleby when he became Prime Minister in 1783, although he stood down in the next general election, preferring to take a Cambridge University seat.

[22] A later Appleby member was Viscount Howick, later as Earl Grey the Prime Minister under whom the Reform Act 1832 was passed.

As the only county town disenfranchised, Appleby was a controversial case in the debates on the Reform Bill, where the opposition attempted vainly to save it at least one MP.

[29] Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC North East and Cumbria and ITV Border.

[36] As of November 2024[update] the town is served by two bus routes:[37] A chronological list of notables from Appleby with a Wikipedia page: