KABER, a township partly in the parish of.BROUGH,
but chiefly in that of KIRKBY-STEPHEN, EAST ward,
county of WESTMORLAND, 2 miles (S.) from Brough,
containing 164 inhabitants. A school was founded and
endowed by Thomas Waller and others, in 1689; the
annual income is £12. 16. 6., and twenty children are
instructed. In 1663 an insurrection of the republican
party being contemplated, preparatory meetings were
held at Kaber Rigg by the disaffected, several of whom
were eventually executed at Appleby.