A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
CORBY (Great), a township in Wetheral parish, Cumberland; on the river Eden and the Newcastle and Carlisle railway, adjacent to Wetheral r. station, 4½ miles ESE of Carlisle. It has a post office, of the name of Corby, under Carlisle. Acres, inclusive of Warwick-Bridge township, 2, 747. Real property, with Warwick-Bridge, £6, 935. Pop., 323. Houses, 79. The manor belonged once to the Salkelds; but has long been held by the Howards. Corby Castle, the seat of P. H. Howard, Esq., was originally a castellated edifice, but has acquired a modernized appearance by a new Grecian front; and it contains a portrait of Lord William Howard, Titian's Charles V., and the claymore of "Fergus M'Ivor, " Major Macdonald.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Wetheral AP/CP Cumberland AncC |
| Place names: | CORBY | CORBY GREAT | GREAT CORBY |
| Place: | Great Corby |
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