Warwick Bridge is a village in the

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district of the ceremonial county of

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, England. It forms part of a small urban area which includes the villages of

Corby Hill Corby Hill is a village in Cumbria, England. It is located by road east of the city centre of Carlisle. The Trout Beck stream passes here. The village forms part of a small urban area which also includes the villages of Warwick Bridge and Li ...

and Little Corby. In 2011 it had a population of 1264. Warwick Bridge lies within the

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Wetheral Wetheral is a village, civil parish and Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom, electoral ward in Cumbria, England. At the United Kingdom Census 2001, 2001 census, the population of the Wetheral Wards of the United Kingdom, Ward was ...

though Corby Hill and Little Corby are in Hayton parish. Until 1974 it was in the county of

. From 1974 to 2023 it was in

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district. Warwick Bridge is located on the River Eden and the

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, near the

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. It is five miles east of the city of

and four miles from the town of

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. The bridge on the Eden, which gave the village its name, was built from 1833 to 1835 by

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. The village has a post office in Corby Hill, a

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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.

References

External links

Cumbria County History Trust: Wetheral
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People

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