Arbory
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 Parish of Arbory, Isle of Man | |
| Population | 1,847 [1] |
| OS grid reference | SC2390471387 |
| Sheading | Rushen |
| Crown dependency | Isle of Man |
| Post town | ISLE OF MAN |
| Postcode district | IM9 |
| House of Keys | Arbory, Castletown & Malew |
Arbory (Manx : Cairbre) is one of the seventeen historic parishes of the Isle of Man.
It is located in the south of the island (part of the traditional South Side division) in the sheading of Rushen.
Settlements in the parish include Ballabeg, Colby and Ronague.
For the purposes of local government, the whole of the historic parish forms an electoral ward of the parish district of Arbory and Malew.
The Captain of the Parish (since 1998) is Cecil Raymond Gawne. [2]
The area of the historic parish is part of the Arbory, Castletown & Malew constituency, which elects two Members to the House of Keys. Until 2016 it was in the Rushen constituency.
The Isle of Man census of 2016 returned a parish population of 1,847, an increase of 5.4% from the figure of 1,747 in 2011. [3]
Castletown is a town in the Isle of Man, geographically within the historical parish of Malew but administered separately. Lying at the south of the island, it was the Manx capital until 1869. The centre of town is dominated by Castle Rushen, a well-preserved medieval castle, originally built for a Viking king.
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