Coordinates: 54°55′49″N 2°38′31″W / 54.93022°N 2.64196°W / 54.93022; -2.64196

Farlam
Farlam  Farlam shown within Cumbria
Population	590 [1]
OS grid reference	NY5620258218
- London	259 Miles
Civil parish	Farlam
District	Carlisle
Shire county	Cumbria
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Carlisle
Postcode district	CA8
Dialling code	016977
Police	Cumbria
Fire	Cumbria
Ambulance	North West
EU Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Penrith and The Border
List of places: UK • England • Cumbria

Farlam is a village and civil parish in the City of Carlisle District, in the English county of Cumbria. It is bordered by the small town of Brampton located approximately 3 miles to the north and the City of Carlisle, 5 miles to the west. While the population has fluctuated over time, according to the 2001 UK Census^[update], the population stood at 590: 291 males and 299 females.^[2]

History[link]

Origins[link]

The name Farlam is thought to originate from the Old English fearn and ham, the latter meaning village or village community, translating to a 'Ferny-clearing homestead/village' or perhaps, 'hemmed-in land by a ferny clearing'.^[3]

Farlam was originally divided into two townships, East Farlam and West Farlam with a combined population in 1811 of 672 inhabitants and 115 houses. Hallbankgate and Kirkhouse where two hamlets located within the township of East Farlam, the former four miles south east of Brampton, and the latter, where the church stands, is half-a-mile east of the village. Milton was a small village in West Farlam 1½ mile south east of Brampton.^[4] The whole parish has a high elevation and topographically is quite hilly with an area in 1847 of 5,680 acres.^[5]

Population[link]

The UK national census revealed that in 1881, the total population for the parish peaked at 1585, which until 1881, (with the exception of 1821 where it decreased from 672 to 663) had been growing steadily year on year, since records began in 1801. After 1881 there was a large drop in population which is shown in the 1961 census, where it the population had decreased from 1581 to 670. ^[6]

Occupation[link]

Both coal and limstone where found within Farlam and as such limestone was quarried and in 1552 coal was bored for in Greenside Rigg within the parish.. The 1881 census shows that the majority of men within the village were involved in the mining and quarrying of both the coal and limestone with 257 men being listed as workers in various minral substances.^[8] However the picture of the women occupations is less clear with the majority (232) being listed as persons without specific occupations.^[9] Due to Farlam being a mining village jobs may have been very limited to mining, a occupation not performed by the women and as such simply had no occupation through lack of job availability.

Housing[link]

Over time, the total number of houses in Farlam has fluctuated. Between 1831 and 1901, the total number of houses increased steadily from 134 to 294. However in 1921 the total number of houses decreased to 230 and rose again to 247 in 1931 before falling to 230 in 1961. The most recent data from the 2001 UK Census showed that there were 265 houses. ^[11]

Church[link]

Farlam has boasted a church as early as 1169, but the current church was erected in 1860. The old church was given by Robert de Vallibus to Lanercost priory but after the dissolution along with all of the possessions of the priory, was granted to Sir Thomas Dacre, and is now in the patronage and impropriation of the Earl of Carlisle. ^[13]

The current church is dedicated to St. Thomas a Becket and is a plain stone building in the early English style and was constructed for a cost of £2,000^[14] back in 1860 which in today's money would have cost £86,320.^[15] The building consists of a nave, chancel and only one aisle with for accommodation for 400 worshippers. It occupies a site near the old church adjoining the hamlet of Kirkhouse. The land on which it stands was contributed by the Hon. Charles Howard as well as £500 towards its construction, Mrs Maria Thompson also contributed £200, a new organ for the church and erected the pictorial east pictorial east window. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners granted £200, and the parishioners also contributed a large unknown sum of money towards the cost of erection. ^[16]

References[link]

• http://www.british-towns.net/en/level_4_display.asp?GetL3=2238

External links[link]

Media related to Farlam at Wikimedia Commons

Coordinates: 54°55′N 2°41′W / 54.917°N 2.683°W / 54.917; -2.683

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Lorraine Farlam (born 28 October 1975) is an English darts player.

Farlam qualified for the 2011 BDO World Darts Championship, where she lost 0-2 to Irina Armstrong in the quarter-finals. The following year, she went one step further by making it through to the semi-finals where she was narrowly defeated by Deta Hedman in a tie-break final leg decider.

Farlam is not a full-time professional darts player, and works as a beauty therapist.^[1] She is in a relationship with fellow darts player Dean Winstanley. Lorraine has 2 children, Josie and Jess, from a previous relationship.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Player profile on Lorraine Farlam from Dartsdatabase

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Irina Armstrong (Russian: Ирина Армстронг , born December 6, 1970 in Vologda) is a Russian darts player, nicknamed Ice Baby. She is currently one of the top ladies' dart players in the BDO circuit.

Career[link]

Irina started out playing ten-pin bowling until she was pregnant and decided to pick up darts. From then, she has quickly risen to be one of the top lady players in the world. She picked up wins in the singles and pairs events in the Belgium Open and Finland Open, and followed it up with a win in the German Open pairs with Carina Ekberg of Sweden,.^[1] Her greatest achievement to date came at the 2007 WDF World Cup in Rosmalen, Netherlands, where she won the Ladies' Pairs title with Anastasia Dobromyslova.

Her performances in 2008 included wins in the French Open, Dortmund Open, German Gold Cup, Open Holland, and the Primus Masters. She was also the runner-up of the England Open, Swiss Open, and the Danish Open, and moved to as high as 3rd in the world rankings.

Despite her successes during 2008, Irina was surprisingly overlooked for a place in the Zuiderduin Masters, a BDO major held in Holland. Having missed out initially on an automatic place for the tournament by just one place, a spot was made available after Anastasia was forced to withdraw from the competition after Dutch authorities prevented her from playing in the event because of her visa problems, but it was given to Lisa Ashton, who would go on to win the tournament. Still hoping for a wild card, this was then handed to German player Monique Lessmeister, who at the time was ranked 66 places below her in the world rankings.

Irina continued her good form into 2009 and secured qualification for the Lakeside World Championship by winning the England Open. She also made up for last year's disappointment by ensuring qualification for the Zuiderduin.

Personal life[link]

Irina is married to an Englishman named John Armstrong, with 2 children, son Christian and daughter Ksenia. She currently resides in Gangelt, Germany and previously lived in Holland. She is fluent in German and English. '

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Website

Deta Hedman (born November 14, 1959) is a Jamaican-born English darts player currently playing in British Darts Organisation events.

Hedman reached the Women's World Masters final for the first time in 1990, losing to Rhian Speed. She won the Women's World Masters in 1994. When she retired from darts in 1997 due to work commitments, she had been Women's World Number 1 since 1994.^[1]

Hedman returned to darts in 2002 with the Professional Darts Corporation. She qualified for the UK Open in 2004, and more famously in 2005, when she defeated Aaron Turner and Norman Fletcher before losing to Wayne Atwood in the last 64. Her win over Turner was the first time that a female darts player had beaten a male player in a televised major.

Due to work commitments, Hedman retired again in 2006, but returned to the BDO in 2009. After winning numerous open titles in 2009, she successfully qualified for the BDO Women's World Championship for the first time in 2010. She defeated Irina Armstrong 2-0 in the quarter-finals, but was beaten 2-0 by eventual champion Trina Gulliver in the semi-finals.

Hedman also competed in the first PDC Women's World Darts Championship in 2010, but lost to Fiona Carmichael in the quarter-finals.

At the 2011 BDO World Darts Championship, Hedman defeated Belgium's Patricia De Peuter 2-1 in the quarter-finals before being whitewashed 2-0 by Rhian Edwards in the semi-finals.

Hedman's best run at the BDO World Darts Championship came in 2012, where she beat Rhian Edwards and Lorraine Farlam to reach the final. In the final, she led Anastasia Dobromyslova by a set and threw for the championship, but was broken and ultimately lost 2-1.

Personal life[link]

Hedman was born in Jamaica, and arrived in the United Kingdom in January 1973, when she was 13.

Hedman's brother Al also played in PDC events from 2001 to 2005. Her nephew Graham is a 400 metre sprinter.

Hedman was previously in a relationship with Colin Lloyd.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official site
• Profile and stats on Darts Database

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Anastasia Dobromyslova-Martin (Russian: Анастаси́я Петро́вна Добромы́слова) (born 26 September 1984 in Tver, Russia) is a professional darts player. She is a two-time Women's World Champion of the British Darts Organisation. After winning her first title in 2008, she decided to join the rival, male-dominated, Professional Darts Corporation to play in their World Championship in 2009. After rejoining the BDO in 2011, she won her second World Championship in 2012.

She uses the song "Girls" by Sugababes as her walk-on music. She previously used "Bring Me To Life by Evanescence. She carries the name From Russia With Love, although Dobromyslova has stated herself that it isn't an official nickname. She is more commonly known as just Anastasia due to the complex difficulty upon pronouncing her last name.

Career[link]

Dobromyslova started to play darts at the age of twelve,^[1] and has won the Russian National Championship a total of seven times. According to Dobromyslova, it was quite easy because hardly anyone played the game in Russia. She won the Girls' World Masters title in 2001, and won the WDF Europe Youth Cup singles title in 2001 and 2002.

She made her professional major debut at the 2004 Bavaria World Darts Trophy, where she beat Trina Gulliver in the quarter final, averaging 90. After beating Mieke de Boer in the semis, she lost to Francis Hoenselaar in the final.

In 2007, Dobromyslova made her debut in the BDO World Championship at Lakeside, as the number 4 seed, reaching the semi-finals. After beating Sweden's Carina Ekberg in the quarter-finals, she fell to eventual winner, Trina Gulliver. During the year, she won the England Open and the British Open, amongst several other singles titles across Europe. In October, she represented Russia in the 2007 WDF World Cup in the Netherlands, and won the ladies' pairs title with Irina Armstrong.

In 2008, she returned to Lakeside, again as the number 4 seed, for the World Championship. She defeated Dee Bateman in the first round and Stephanie Smee in the semi-finals, before defeating Trina Gulliver in the final by two sets to nil, ending Gulliver's seven-year unbeaten run as world champion.

Dobromyslova made headlines when she qualified for the 2008 UK Open, a PDC major tournament, by winning through the Pub Qualifiers event, beating Darren Place 5-2 and Pete Galloway 5-0.^[2] In the first round, she was drawn to play Robert Thornton, who was also a BDO player who won through the Pub Qualifiers, and was the reigning World Masters champion. Thornton narrowly won 6-5.

She was named the number one seed for the 2008 Zuiderduin Masters, but was excluded from playing by the Dutch authorities after problems with her visa, and was forced to withdraw. She was replaced by Lisa Ashton.

Dobromyslova received an invitation from the PDC to play in the 2008 Grand Slam of Darts, as BDO Ladies' world champion. It was the first time a female darts player was invited to play at the Grand Slam. In her group, she was drawn with reigning PDC world champion John Part, Kevin McDine, and Wayne Mardle. After losing her opening match 5-1 to Part, she gave Mardle a scare when she came from 4-0 to take four consecutive legs, including a Shanghai 120 checkout and a 116, before Mardle won the deciding leg. A third defeat occurred when she lost 5-2 to McDine.

In December, she went into the 2008 World Masters as the number one ranked ladies' darts player, and reached the final, where she lost to Hoenselaar. Just a few hours later, however, it was announced that Dobromyslova had left the WDF/BDO circuit, and had joined the PDC on a full-time basis, after she was awarded a wildcard entry into the 2009 PDC World Darts Championship following the withdrawal of an unnamed Indian qualifer,^[3] a decision that was publicly criticised by five-time world champion Eric Bristow.^[4]

Dobromyslova became the second female player to play in a men's world darts championship, after Canadian Gayl King played in the 2001 event. She was drawn in the preliminary round against Remco van Eijden, and lost 5 legs to 3.

She qualified again for the UK Open in 2009, this time through her UK Open Order of Merit ranking, having won £500 in seven qualifying events. She played amateur qualifier Andy Roberts in the first round and lost 6-2.

Following their failed takeover bid of the BDO, the PDC introduced their own Women's World Championship, and Dobromyslova automatically qualified as the only female member of the PDPA. She lost in the semi-finals to Stacy Bromberg, who went on the beat Tricia Wright in the final.

At the 2009 Grand Slam of Darts, Dobromyslova was drawn with Phil Taylor, Vincent van der Voort, and Mark Webster. After suffering a 5-0 whitewash from Taylor in her first group match, Dobromyslova defeated van der Voort 5-4. It was her first ever win against a man on television, and made her only the second woman to beat a male professional darts player in a major televised darts competition, the first being Deta Hedman's defeats of Aaron Turner and Norman Fletcher in the 2005 UK Open. She still finished bottom of the group, however, as van der Voort unexpectedly beat Taylor 5-1 two days later, whilst she lost her last group game to Webster 5-2.

Dobromyslova failed to qualify for the PDC World Championship in 2010 and 2011, despite entering the Russian PDC qualifying events. In the 2010 qualifier, she lost in the final to Roman Konchikov, and she lost again in the final, to Andrei Ratnikov in the 2011 event. Ratnikov later withdrew from the competition after he was unable to travel to England for family reasons. PDC awarded his preliminary round place to the runner-up of the PDPA qualifying event (which later turned out to be Matt Padgett), rather than Dobromyslova.

Dobromyslova represented Russia in the first ever PDC World Cup of Darts along with Konchikov. The pair beat Gibraltar, paired by Dylan Duo and Dyson Parody, in the first round, before losing to Scotland's Gary Anderson and Robert Thornton.

On 24 December 2010, it was rumoured amongst several darts internet forums that Dobromyslova had resigned from the PDC and returned to play in BDO and WDF events. On 1 January 2011, during the BBC's broadcast of the 2011 BDO World Darts Championship, commentator David Croft announced that Dobromyslova was indeed returning to play in the BDO circuit. Anastasia herself confirmed over a week later, via her twitter page, that she had left the PDC and was preparing for the Dutch Open. She later said she moved back to the BDO for monetary reasons.^[5]

She qualified for the 2012 BDO World Darts Championship, where in the quarter final, she defeated second seeded Welsh woman Julie Gore by two sets to nil. In the semi finals, she defeated third seed and title holder Trina Gulliver again by two sets to nil. Dobromyslova then recovered from losing the first set and needing to break her opponent Deta Hedman's throw to stay in the match to win her second world championship two sets to one.

Personal life[link]

Dobromyslova is married to Tony Martin, who qualified for the 2005 BDO World Darts Championship and resides in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official site
• Profile and stats on Darts Database
• Anastasia's profile on the Unicorn website