Upperby

Upperby is a former village, now a suburb of Carlisle, in the Cumberland district, in the English county of Cumbria.

The original village extended along what is now St Ninian's Road from the Cross Keys Inn,[3] on Upperby Road at the west end of the village, to an alabaster mill by the Petteril,[note 1][4] now an industrial site by the railway bridge.

Upperby has a park with a boating pool called Hammond's Pond which had originally been claypits known as "Clarty Dubs".

His paintings of local cottages featured in a series of coloured postcards printed by Chas.

He is best known for the Flashman series of novels, and Quartered Safe Out Here, an autobiography of his wartime experiences in Burma with the Border Regiment.