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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Great Corby like this:
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.
Great Corby is now part of CUMBERLAND Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CUMBERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Great Corby itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Great Corby in Cumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21437
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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