Warwick Bridge is a village in the
City of Carlisle
The City of Carlisle ( , ) is a local government district of Cumbria, England, with the status of a city and non-metropolitan district. It is named after its largest settlement, Carlisle, but covers a far larger area which includes the towns ...
district of the county of
Cumbria
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, England. It forms part of a small urban area which includes the villages of
Corby Hill and
Little Corby.
Warwick Bridge lies within the
civil parish
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of
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 ...
though Corby Hill and Little Corby are in
Hayton parish.
Warwick Bridge is located on the
River Eden and the
A69 road, near the
River Irthing
The River Irthing is a river in Cumbria, England and a major tributary of the River Eden. The name is recorded as Ard or Arden in early references. For the first 15 miles of its course it defines the border between Northumberland and Cumbria.
...
. It is five miles east of the city of
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 ...
and four miles from the town of
Brampton
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. The bridge on the Eden, which gave the village its name, was built from 1833 to 1835 by
Francis Giles
Francis Giles (1787–1847) was a canal engineer and surveyor who worked under John Rennie and later became a railway engineer.
Works and appointments
* Kent & Sussex Junction Canal 1811 – with Netlam Giles surveyed the route as part of Jo ...
.
The village has a post office in Corby Hill, a
Co-operative Food
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Prior to reintroducing the brand in 2016, the group used " The Co-operative" branding, which is still used by a number of consumers' co ...
store and 2 churches, one being
Our Lady & St Wilfrid's Church and the other St Paul's Holme Eden. There are two large mansion houses near or in the village,
Warwick Hall and
Holme Eden Hall built in 1837.
People
Ambulance driver and nurse
Pat Waddell was born here in 1892. She returned to the front after losing a leg in WW1.
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
External links
Cumbria County History Trust: Wetheral(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
Villages in Cumbria
Wetheral
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