Colby
Colby is a village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of the English county of Cumbria. It is near the village of Bolton to the north and the town of Appleby-in-Westmorland to the east.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 120 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Cumbria, UK
- Also known as: “Colby, Cumbria”
- Postal code: CA16
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Lawrence’s Church and Appleby Grammar School.
St Lawrence’s Church
Church
Photo: Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Lawrence's Church is in Boroughgate, Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Appleby, the archdeaconry of Carlisle, and the diocese of Carlisle.
Appleby Grammar School
School
Photo: Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Appleby Grammar School is a co-educational comprehensive secondary school and sixth form in Appleby-in-Westmorland for students aged 11 to 18. Since 2011, it has been an Academy. Until 2013, the school was a registered charity.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Appleby-in-Westmorland and Burrells.
Appleby-in-Westmorland
Photo: Bryan Ledgard, CC BY 2.0.
Appleby-in-Westmorland is a small town in Cumbria, North West England. It is famous today for the annual Horse Fair in June but is quietly picturesque for the rest of the year.
Burrells
Hamlet
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Burrells is a hamlet in the civil parish of Hoff, in the Westmorland and Furness district of the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England, located just south of Appleby-in-Westmorland on the B6260. Burrells is situated 1½ miles southeast of Colby.
Brampton
Village
Photo: Carl Bendelow, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brampton is a village in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the county of Cumbria, England. Before 1974 it was in the county of Westmorland; the nearest town is Appleby-in-Westmorland. Brampton is situated 2 miles northeast of Colby.
Colby
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Colby, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.57967° or 54° 34′ 47″ northLongitude
-2.51956° or 2° 31′ 10″ westPopulation
120Elevation
417 feet (127 metres)Open location code
9C6VHFHJ+V5OpenStreetMap ID
node 242712244OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2652619Wikidata ID
Q1107648
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Colby” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Colby”
- Chinese: “Colby”
- Dutch: “Colby”
- French: “Colby”
- German: “Colby”
- Irish: “Colby”
- Italian: “Colby (Cumbria)”
- Italian: “Colby”
- Ladin: “Colby”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Colby (Cumbria)”
- Persian: “کلبی، کامبریا”
- Polish: “Colby (Kumbria)”
- Polish: “Colby”
- Swedish: “Colby, Cumbria”
- Swedish: “Colby”
- Turkish: “Colby, Cumbria”
- Urdu: “کولبی، کامبریا”
- Welsh: “Colby, Cumbria”
- Welsh: “Colby”
- “Colby”
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