Gamblesby is a village near
Melmerby, in the
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
of
Glassonby
Glassonby is a small village and civil parish in the Eden Valley of Cumbria, England, about south south east of Kirkoswald. At the 2001 census the parish had a population of 314, decreasing marginally to 308 at the 2011 Census.
There is a m ...
,
Cumbria
Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England, bordering Scotland. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local government, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. C ...
, England. It appears first in written records in 1177 as ''Gamelesbi'', and in 1212 as ''Gamelesby''. Originally a
township
A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries.
Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...
of the ancient parish of Addingham, Gamblesby was a civil parish in its own right from 1866 until 1934. In 1931 the parish had a population of 197.
The village's former church,
St. John's, is now a private house.
There are several large houses, also there are others that are smaller but all with gardens. Plenty of land surrounds the area which supports either livestock or crops for farming. The village has a road passing through which leads to
Unthank Unthank may refer to:
Places England
* Unthank, Dalston, Cumbria
*Unthank, Glassonby, Cumbria
* Unthank, Skelton, Cumbria
* Unthank, Derbyshire
* Unthank, Stanhope, County Durham
*Newtown Unthank, Leicestershire
* Unthank, Alnham, Northumberland
* ...
, Glassonby and Melmerby.
See also
*
Listed buildings in Glassonby
Glassonby is a civil parish in the Eden District, Cumbria, England. It contains 19 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the ...
References
External links
Cumbria County History Trust: Gamblesby(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
Villages in Cumbria
Former civil parishes in Cumbria
Glassonby
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