Corby Castle
Corby Castle is a Grade I listed building and ancestral home of a cadet branch of the prominent Howard family situated on the southern edge of the village of Great Corby in northern Cumbria, England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Lynne Kirton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Building
- Description: tower house in Cumbria, England, UK
- Also known as: “Corby Castle Estate”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include River Eden and Wetheral Priory Gatehouse.
River Eden
River
The River Eden is a river that flows through Cumbria, England. It rises on Black Fell Moss, near the village of Outhgill, and runs in a generally north-westerly direction through the Vale of Eden and Solway Plain before reaching the sea at the Solway Firth.
Wetheral Priory Gatehouse
Historic building
Photo: Lynne Kirton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wetheral Priory Gatehouse is a 15th-century stone fortification in Wetheral, Cumbria. The priory was founded at the start of the 12th century and the gatehouse controlled the entrance to its outer courtyard. Wetheral Priory Gatehouse is situated 960 feet west of Corby Castle.
Wetheral railway station
Railway station
Photo: JonnyH, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wetheral is a railway station on the Tyne Valley Line, which runs between Newcastle and Carlisle via Hexham. The station, situated 4 miles 7 chains east of Carlisle, serves the villages of Great Corby and Wetheral, City of Carlisle in Cumbria, England. Wetheral railway station is situated 1,900 feet northwest of Corby Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Great Corby and Broadwath.
Great Corby
Village
Photo: JonnyH, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Great Corby is a village in northern Cumbria, England, above the eastern bank of a wooded gorge on the River Eden. Directly across the river from Great Corby is the village of Wetheral.
Broadwath
Hamlet
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Broadwath is a hamlet in the Cumberland district, in the English county of Cumbria. Broadwath is on Cairn Beck. Nearby settlements include the villages of Wetheral, Warwick Bridge, Great Corby and Heads Nook.
Burnrigg
Hamlet
Photo: Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Burnrigg is a hamlet in Cumbria, England. It is located to the east of Carlisle. In 1887, The British Architect said "on a site particularly high and open, are two small two- storied blocks of tenements, in all thirty-two, two small rooms to each, no other accommodation except four privies".
Corby Castle
- Categories: English country house, castle, and tower house
- Location: Wetheral, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.87982° or 54° 52′ 47″ northLongitude
-2.82624° or 2° 49′ 35″ westElevation
161 feet (49 metres)Open location code
9C6VV5HF+WGOpenStreetMap ID
way 334870854OpenStreetMap feature
building=yes
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Corby Castle” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Corby Castle”
- Danish: “Corby Castle”
- French: “château de Corby”
- French: “Château de Corby”
- German: “Corby Castle”
- Japanese: “コービー城”
- Swedish: “Corby Castle”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Corby Castle”. Photo: Lynne Kirton, CC BY-SA 2.0.