Colby, Westmorland

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Colby
Westmorland
Pipe Bridge over Hoff Beck - geograph.org.uk - 1102345.jpg
The pipe bridge over Hoff Beck
Location
Grid reference: NY667198
Location: 54°34’23"N, 2°30’55"W
Data
Population: 129  (2011)
Post town: Appleby In Westmorland
Postcode: CA16
Dialling code: 01768
Local Government
Council: Westmorland & Furness
Parliamentary
constituency:
Penrith and The Border

Colby is a small village in Westmorland, just west of the county town, Appleby-in-Westmorland. It is beside the Hoff Beck just above its junction with the River Eden. Further north down the lane and downstream on the Eden is near the larger village of Bolton.

A little over a mile to the north-west are the ruins of Bewley Castle, a mediæval residence of the bishops of Carlisle.[1] There is a story told that a castle servant named Marget Dawe once murdered a highwayman named Belted Will Scott, after he gained entrance to the castle dressed as a woman.[2]

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References

  1. National Monuments Record: No. 13637 – Bewley Castle
  2. Ash, Russell: 'Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain' (Reader's Digest Association Limited, 1973) page 363 ISBN 9780340165973