Crosby Garrett
| Crosby Garrett | |
| Westmorland | |
|---|---|
 St Andrew's Church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NY728095 |
| Location: | 54°28’51"N, 2°25’13"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 195 (2011) |
| Post town: | Kirkby Stephen |
| Postcode: | CA17 |
| Dialling code: | 01768 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Westmorland & Furness |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Penrith and The Border |
Crosby Garrett is a hamlet in Westmorland, three miles west of Kirkby Stephen.
The place-name 'Crosby Garrett' is first attested in a document of 1200, where it appears as Crosseby, and in another of 1206, where it appears as Crossebi Gerard. The first name is Old Scandinavian Krossa-byr, meaning 'village or homestead with crosses'. 'Garrett' is the French personal name, indicating manorial ownership.[1]
In May 2010 the Crosby Garrett Helmet, a copper alloy parade helmet dating to Roman Britain, was discovered near the hamlet by a father and son using a metal detector. The helmet was sold to a private buyer at Christie's later that year for £2.3 million.
Description
The parish contains no settlements of any size other than the village of Crosby Garrett, and much of the parish is on Crosby Garrett Fell to the south-west of the village.
The Settle to Carlisle railway passes through the parish, at the south-western edge of the village on the 110-yard Crosby Garrett viaduct.
The highest point in the parish is Nettle Hill at 1,253 feet (54°27’51"N, 2°26’18"W).
Parish church
The parish church of St Andrew has an Anglo-Saxon chancel, the remainder of the church dates between the 12th and 15th centuries. In 2010, a major restoration project was undertaken.
Crosby Garrett Helmet
In May 2010 a rare ceremonial Roman helmet was discovered by an unnamed metal detectorist not far from a Roman road near the hamlet. The copper-alloy helmet with integral mask, with the appearance of a youthful male face, and a griffin crest, is only one of three recorded finds of its kind in Britain.[2]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Crosby Garrett) |
- Parishes (East Ward): St Andrew, Crosby Garrett – Curwen, John F: 'The Later Records relating to North Westmorland: or the Barony of Appleby', pp.110-114 (1932)
- Information on Crosby Garrett from GENUKI
References
- ↑ Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. p. 132 ISBN 0198691033
- ↑ 'Rare Roman helmet and face-mask discovered' The Telegraph, 13 September 2010
