Walby is a hamlet in the civil parish of

Stanwix Rural Stanwix Rural is a civil parish in the City of Carlisle non-metropolitan district, district of Cumbria, England, immediately to the north east of Carlisle, Cumbria, Carlisle itself – parts of the Carlisle urban area are in the parish boundaries ...

, in the

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 ...

district, in the county of

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, England. It is a few miles away from the city of

and near the hamlet of

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. It is on Willow Beck near the River Eden and is about half a mile away from the main

A689 road The A689 is a road in northern England that runs east from the A595, to the west of Carlisle in Cumbria, to Hartlepool in County Durham. The road begins west of Carlisle, just outside the city at the A595. The initial stretch was recently co ...

. It has an open farm. Circa 1870, it had a population of 40 as recorded in the

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. The

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derives from the place.

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Hamlets in Cumbria City of Carlisle {{Cumbria-geo-stub