Great Corby, Cumberland

Historical Description

Corby, Great, a small village in Wetheral parish, Cumberland, on the river Eden and the Newcastle and Carlisle railway, adjacent to Wetheral railway station, 4¼ miles ESE of Carlisle. It has a post office of the name of Corby under Carlisle; telegraph office, Wetheral. The manor belonged once to the Salkelds, but has long been held by the Howards. Corby Castle, the seat of the Behrens family, was originally a castellated edifice, but is now a plain square mansion, with a Doric portico, finely situated on the edge of a lofty cliff overlooking the Eden, and it contains a portrait of Lord William Howard, " Belted Will;" Titian's Charles V.; and the claymore of " Fergus M'lvor," Major Macdonald.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Great Corby from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Corby, Great)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cumberland is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Great Corby are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)