Crosby Garrett

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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

The 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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References

  1. Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. p. 132 ISBN 0198691033
  2. 'Rare Roman helmet and face-mask discovered' The Telegraph, 13 September 2010