The Faraday Connection
It is sometimes said that Faraday Road (parallel with High Street and Market Street) is named in honour of the scientist, Michael Faraday (1791–1867) but it is named after his uncle, Richard Faraday, who was a respected local tradesman. Richard's younger brother, James, was for some time the blacksmith in Outhgill, - but his third child, Michael, was born soon after they had moved to London. The Faraday brothers moved from Clapham, Yorkshire to the Kirkby Stephen area because the family were all members of the Sandemanian sect and at that time there was one of the few Sandemanian communities with a chapel which was in the courtyard behind what is now the HSBC bank.
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