Scotby is a village in the
City of Carlisle
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district of
Cumbria
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, England. It is separated from
Carlisle
Carlisle ( , ; from xcb, Caer Luel) is a city that lies within the Northern England, Northern English county of Cumbria, south of the Anglo-Scottish border, Scottish border at the confluence of the rivers River Eden, Cumbria, Eden, River C ...
by the
M6 Motorway
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, and it is close to other dormitory villages in the area, such as
Wetheral
Wetheral is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in Cumbria, England. At the 2001 census, the population of the Wetheral Ward was 4,039, The civil parish of Wetheral is slightly larger, with a population of 5,203. being counted as 4,541 ...
,
Cumwhinton
Cumwhinton is a small village in Cumbria, England. It is around one mile away from both Scotby and Wetheral, and four miles from Carlisle. The village lies in Wetheral civil parish.
History and facilities
A hamlet was established at Cumwhinton ...
and
Aglionby Aglionby may be the surname of:
* Edward Aglionby (died c. 1591) (1520–c. 1591), MP for Carlisle, and for Warwick, and poet
* Edward Aglionby (died 1553), MP for Carlisle
* Edward Aglionby (died 1599), MP for Carlisle
* Hugh Aglionby, MP
*John Ag ...
. It is part of the Wetheral
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 authority ...
. In 2018 it had an estimated population of 2366.
History
During the
Second World War
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, on 11 March 1943, a village dance was being held in the village hall when a bomb penetrated the hall roof which resulted in a local farmer being killed.
In the field on the opposite side of the
Tyne Valley Line to the Church, rubber tubes were laid out so as to represent railway lines to make the German
Luftwaffe
The ''Luftwaffe'' () was the aerial-warfare branch of the German ''Wehrmacht'' before and during World War II. Germany's military air arms during World War I, the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' of the Imperial Army and the '' Marine-Fliegerabtei ...
think that it was a major railway sidings of Carlisle. It is thought that the
Luftwaffe
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, which was returning from a bombing raid on the munitions factory at
Gretna, released their bomb load on to the fake sidings in the hope of destroying them, and also to lighten their plane load for their flight home. On the same night, a bomb also landed near to the
War Memorial
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Symbolism
Historical usage
It has ...
in the churchyard Although it did not explode, It did damage some of the church windows.
Community
Scotby School is the main primary school for children living in the area. It has around 282 registered pupils, and its catchment includes Wetheral village and parts of eastern Carlisle.
There is a
village green
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in the centre of the village, and the village hall is located beside it. The hall, which is arranged as a single floor, was constructed in 1926, and an extension was added to the front of the building in 1953.
Also on this side of the green is a building which used to be the Quaker Meeting house. It is now part of a small development called Scotby Green Steading. The Quakers had a strong religious presence in the village going back to at least the mid 1600s. The Meeting House was used by them until as late the Second World War. Along with the cemetery adjacent to the Meeting House, the
Quakers
Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belief in each human's abil ...
also had a burial ground situated off Broomfallen Road on what is known as White Hill. This can be seen from Ladysteps; it is the small wood to the right of the skyline.
![Royal Oak, Scotby (geograph 3306921)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Royal_Oak%2C_Scotby_%28geograph_3306921%29.jpg)
Opposite the green is the village Shop and Post Office, a public house and Scotby Parish Centre. The Parish Centre was originally built as a Reading Room by the Quakers in the 1880s.
The village Church is the All Saints Church, which is located on a piece of high ground situated between the
village green
A village green is a commons, common open area within a village or other settlement. Historically, a village green was common pasture, grassland with a pond for watering cattle and other stock, often at the edge of a rural settlement, used for ...
and the
Tyne Valley Line railway. The church was consecrated on 11 October 1855. Before this date, residents of the village had to travel to the Holy Trinity church in
Wetheral
Wetheral is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in Cumbria, England. At the 2001 census, the population of the Wetheral Ward was 4,039, The civil parish of Wetheral is slightly larger, with a population of 5,203. being counted as 4,541 ...
to worship, and to be buried in Wetheral Churchyard cemetery. To reach the cemetery, a number of Corpse Roads were used and many of these lonnings exist today, for example, the lonning at the top of Ghyll Road in Scotby.
Sport
The village has its own cricket club, Scotby Cricket Club.
Transport
There was formerly a
railway station
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on the
Tyne Valley Line, however the station was closed in 1959, before the
Beeching Axe
The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) was a plan to increase the efficiency of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain. The plan was outlined in two reports: ''The Reshaping of British Railways'' (1963) and ''The Development of the ...
. The
Settle-Carlisle Railway also runs through the village and Scotby also had a station on this line until 1942.
Notable residents
*
Lisa McGrillis
Lisa McGrillis (born 3 September 1982, Cheltenham, England) is a British actress.
Early life and education
McGrillis grew up in Scotby, near Carlisle in Cumbria with her mother, a special needs teacher, and her father, an accountant. She studi ...
(1982-), actress, grew up in Scotby.
See also
*
Listed buildings in Wetheral
Wetheral is a civil parish in the City of Carlisle, Carlisle district of Cumbria, England. It contains 104 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, eleven are listed at Grade I, the highest of the th ...
References
Scotby Church of England Primary School
External links
Cumbria County History Trust: Wetheral(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
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