Crosby Garrett is a
hamlet
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and
civil parish
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in the
Eden District
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of
Cumbria
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, England. It was formerly in the county of
Westmorland
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. In the
2011 census Crosby Garrett was grouped with
Waitby to give a total of 195.
The place-name 'Crosby Garrett' is first attested in a document of 1200, where it appears as ''Crosseby'', and in another of 1206, where it appears as ''Crossebi Gerard''. The first name is Old Scandinavian ''Krossa-byr'', meaning 'village or homestead with crosses'. 'Garrett' is the French personal name 'Gerard', which is ultimately of Germanic origin.
In May 2010 the
Crosby Garrett Helmet, a copper alloy parade helmet dating to
Roman Britain
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, was discovered near the hamlet by a father and son using a metal detector. The helmet was sold to a private buyer at
Christie's later that year for £2.3 million.
Description
The parish contains no settlements of any size other than the village of Crosby Garrett, and much of the parish is on Crosby Garrett Fell to the south-west of the village.
The
Settle to Carlisle railway
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passes through the parish, at the southwestern edge of the village on the Crosby Garrett
viaduct; the village once had a railway station,
Crosby Garrett station, which closed in 1952.
The
parish church of St. Andrew has an
Anglo-Saxon chancel
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Ov ...
, the remainder of the church dates between the 12th and 15th centuries. In 2010, a major restoration project was undertaken.
The highest point in the parish is Nettle Hill at .
Crosby Garrett Helmet
In May 2010 a rare ceremonial Roman helmet was discovered by an unnamed
metal detectorist
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not far from a
Roman road near the hamlet. The copper-alloy helmet with integral mask, with the appearance of a youthful male face, and a
griffin crest, is only one of three recorded finds of its kind in Britain.
See also
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Listed buildings in Crosby Garrett
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Smardale
Smardale is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Waitby, in the Eden district, in Cumbria, England. In 1891 the parish had a population of 36.
Geography and history
The village of Smardale lies in hilly agricultural la ...
within the civil parish of
Waitby which forms the eastern boundary of the parish.
References
External links
Cumbria County History Trust: Crosby Garrett(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
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Civil parishes in Cumbria
Hamlets in Cumbria