title: Parsonby
text: # Parsonby
  
  Parsonby is a hamlet in the English county of Cumbria. It is located on the B5301 road, south of Aspatria.
  
  ## Governance
  
  Parsonby, is part of the Workington constituency of the UK parliament. The current Member of Parliament is Sue Hayman, a member of the Labour Party. The Labour Party has won the seat in every general election since 1979; the Conservative Party has only been elected once in Workington since the Second World War: in the 1976 Workington by-election.
  
  For Local Government purposes it is in the Cumberland unitiary authority area.
  
  The village also has its own Parish Council jointly with nearby Plumbland; Plumbland Parish Council Parish Council.
  
  For the European Parliament residents in Parsonby voted to elect MEP's for the North West England constituency.
  
  