From 1866 to 1934 Staffield was a separate civil parish. Renwick was also a separate parish until 1934. The parish council meets at the village hall in Kirkoswald's former market square. An electoral ward in the same name stretches north to Ainstable, with a total population at the 2011 census of 1,471. Notable people Timothy Brown (1743/1744–1820), radical, banker, and merchant, was born in Kirkoswald Maria Fetherstonhaugh (1847–1918), a novelist who also used the name Minna Carleton, was married at Kirkoswald in 1865 to Timothy Fetherstonhaugh, once a captain of the 13th Hussars. See also Listed buildings in Kirkoswald, Cumbria Kirkoswald Hoard References External links Cumbria County History Trust: Kirkoswald (nb: provisional research only – see Talk page) Villages in Cumbria Civil parishes in Cumbria Eden District