Editing Carlisle (section)

==Governance==
[[File:Carlisle Council Offices.jpg|thumb|[[Carlisle Civic Centre]] in the city centre]]
There is one main tier of local government covering Carlisle, at [[Unitary authorities of England|unitary authority]] level: [[Cumberland Council]]. The council is based in Carlisle, with its offices including [[Carlisle Civic Centre]] and [[Cumbria House]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Council |url=https://careers.cumberland.gov.uk/our-council |website=Cumberland Council |access-date=6 April 2025}}</ref> Some peripheral parts of the Carlisle built up area are covered by [[civil parish]]es, but the main part of the built up area is [[Unparished area|unparished]].<ref name=electionmaps>{{cite web |title=Election Maps |url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/ |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=6 April 2025}}</ref> The Cumberland councillors who represent the wards covering the built up area act as [[charter trustees]] to preserve Carlisle's charters and city status; they choose one of their number each year to serve as [[Mayor of Carlisle]].<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The Local Government (Structural Changes)(Supplementary Provision and Amendment) Order 2023|year=2023|number=187}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Charter Trustees of the City of Carlisle |url=https://www.cumberland.gov.uk/your-council/charter-trustees-city-carlisle |website=Cumberland Council |access-date=6 April 2025}}</ref>
[[File:Cumbria County Councils new HQ (geograph 5290723).jpg|thumb|[[Cumbria House]]]]

The [[Carlisle (UK Parliament constituency)|Carlisle constituency]] covers the built up area plus rural areas to the north-east, extending up to the Scottish border.<ref name=electionmaps/> It is represented by [[Julie Minns]] of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]].

===Administrative history===
{{further|County Borough of Carlisle}}
Carlisle was an [[ancient borough]]. Its date of becoming a borough is unknown; its earliest recorded [[municipal charter]] was issued by [[Henry II of England|Henry II]] (reigned 1154–1189), but the borough clearly existed prior to that.<ref>{{cite book |title=Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Municipal Corporations in England and Wales: Appendix 3 |date=1835 |page=1467 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Report_of_the_Commissioners_Appointed_to/N3FTAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA1467&printsec=frontcover |access-date=13 April 2025}}</ref> In accordance with the custom of the time, the borough of Carlisle also became a [[City status in the United Kingdom|city]] on becoming the seat of the [[Diocese of Carlisle]] in 1133.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lucas |first1=Adam |title=Ecclesiastical Lordship, Seigneurial Power and the Commercialization of Milling in Medieval England |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |location=Abingdon |isbn=9781317146476 |page=87 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Ecclesiastical_Lordship_Seigneurial_Powe/3qcWDAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=diocese%20carlisle%201133&pg=PA87&printsec=frontcover |access-date=13 April 2025}}</ref>

The ancient borough covered approximately the area within the [[Carlisle city walls]]. The borough was defined as the [[Township (England)|township]] of English Street in the parish of [[St Cuthbert Without|Carlisle St Cuthbert]], the four townships of Abbey Street, Castle Street, Fisher Street, and Scotch Street in the parish of Carlisle St Mary (which used part of [[Carlisle Cathedral]] as its parish church),<ref>{{cite book |title=Parliamentary Papers |date=1830 |page=365 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Parliamentary_Papers/ErpDAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA365&printsec=frontcover |access-date=6 April 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Whellan |first1=William |title=The History and Topography of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland |date=1860 |page=144 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_History_and_Topography_of_the_Counti/bEI7AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA144&printsec=frontcover |access-date=13 April 2025}}</ref> and an [[extra-parochial area]] known as Eaglesfield Abbey, which covered the cathedral grounds.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=John Marius |title=The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales |date=1866 |page=366 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Imperial_Gazetteer_of_England_and_Wa/ox4FfPP7LsYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA366&printsec=frontcover |access-date=13 April 2025}}</ref> Both St Cuthbert's and St Mary's parishes also included extensive rural areas outside the borough boundaries.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cumberland Sheet XXIII |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/102340758 |website=National Library of Scotland |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=13 April 2025 |date=1868}}</ref>

[[File:Carlisle Tourist Information Centre, Old Town Hall, Market Street, Carlisle.jpg|thumb|[[Old Town Hall, Carlisle|Old Town Hall]]]]
The borough council (also known as the corporation) built the [[Old Town Hall, Carlisle|Town Hall]] in the Market Place in 1668–1669 to serve both as its meeting place and a courthouse, replacing a medieval town hall on the same site.<ref>{{NHLE|desc=Old Town Hall|num=1218104|grade=I}}</ref>

From 1295, the borough also served as a [[parliamentary borough]] (constituency). The constituency was enlarged in 1832 to take in Botchergate from St Cuthbert's parish, and Rickergate and part of Caldewgate from St Mary's parish.<ref>{{cite book |title=Parliamentary Boundaries Act |date=1832 |page=338 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Statutes_of_the_United_Kingdom_of_Gr/Uq0uAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA338&printsec=frontcover |access-date=6 April 2025}}</ref> In 1836, the borough was reformed to become a [[municipal borough]] under the [[Municipal Corporations Act 1835]], which standardised how most boroughs operated across the country. As part of those reforms, the municipal boundaries were adjusted to match the constituency.<ref>{{cite book |title=Municipal Corporations Act |date=1835 |page=456 |url=https://archive.org/details/statutesunitedk35britgoog/page/456/mode/2up |access-date=6 April 2025}}</ref>

In 1904 the parishes within the borough were united into a single [[civil parish]] of Carlisle which matched the borough. The borough was enlarged in 1912 to take in parts of several neighbouring parishes, notably including [[Stanwix]]. As thus enlarged, Carlisle was considered large enough for the borough council to take over county-level functions from [[Cumberland County Council, England|Cumberland County Council]], and so in 1914 Carlisle was made a [[county borough]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Carlisle Municipal Borough / County Borough |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10173826#tab02 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=13 April 2025}}</ref> The borough was further enlarged in 1951.<ref>{{cite web |title=Carlisle Civil Parish |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10118440#tab02 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=13 April 2025}}</ref> The borough council moved its headquarters to the new Civic Centre on Rickergate in 1964.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/17686645.plans-to-demolish-part-of-carlisle-civic-centre-set-to-get-go-ahead-despite-objections/|title=Plans to demolish part of Carlisle Civic Centre set to get go-ahead, despite objections|date=6 June 2019|publisher=News and Star|accessdate=5 July 2020}}</ref>

The municipal borough and civil parish of Carlisle were abolished in 1974 under the [[Local Government Act 1972]]. The area merged with [[Border Rural District]] to become a [[non-metropolitan district]] called [[City of Carlisle|Carlisle]] in the new county of [[Cumbria]].<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Definition) Order 1972|year=1972|number=2039|accessdate=3 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Names) Order 1973|year=1973|number=551|accessdate=3 March 2023}}</ref> Carlisle's borough and city statuses were transferred to the new district, and so the district council took the name Carlisle City Council.<ref>{{cite web |title=District Councils and Boroughs |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1974/mar/28/district-councils-and-boroughs#S5CV0871P0_19740328_CWA_145 |website=[[Hansard|Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)]] |access-date=13 April 2025 |date=28 March 1974}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=46255|page=4400|date=4 April 1974}}</ref>

The non-metropolitan district of Carlisle was in turn abolished in 2023 when the new Cumberland Council was created, also taking over the functions of the abolished Cumbria County Council in the area.<ref name=2022order>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The Cumbria (Structural Changes) Order 2022|year=2022|number=331|access-date=24 January 2024}}</ref>