Penrith and The Border (UK Parliament constituency) includes part of the English border with Scotland. The neighbouring constituency of Hexham (together with Berwick-upon-Tweed) also takes in the border area. The name stems from the fact that when the constituency was first created it consisted of the Penrith Rural and Urban Districts, the Border Rural District and also the Alston with Garrigill Rural District. A heavily undulating, mostly farmed terrain dotted by market towns and historic villages, with wooded mountainsides and heath-covered tops, the constituency is focused on the Eden Valley between the Pennines and the Lake District, with the vale of the River Irthing above Carlisle. In
River Camlad the border back into England, and flows just east of Chirbury before turning west again, and forms the border (for the second time) between England and Wales. It turns northwest into Wales (for the second time) to join the River Severn to the west of Forden. Early forms include the "Kemelet" (1227), "Kemlet" (1256), "Kelemet" 1274, "Camalet" and "Kenlet" (1577) and Camlet (1612). Ekwall proposes the Welsh "" meaning "a knot" (which is found in other river names) giving a hypothetical Old Welsh "Culmet" then "Cylmet" whence "Kelemet", alternatively "Cym(y)let" from the Old Welsh for "loop". River Camlad The River