CORBY (GREAT), a township in that part of the
parish of WETHERAL which is in ESKDALE ward, county
of CUMBERLAND, 6 miles (E. S. E.) from Carlisle,
containing 303 inhabitants. The village is pleasantly
situated on the east bank of the Eden; and contiguous
to it, on the summit of a precipitous cliff, stands
Corby castle, anciently the seat of the Salkelds, who
inherited it from Hubert de Vallibus, Baron of Gilsland,
from whom it passed by purchase to its present
possessors, the Howards, a branch of the Norfolk family.
The mansion was much modernised and improved
in 1813, and the scenes and walks surrounding
it abound in natural beauties. A court leet, a court
baron, and a customary court, are held. A school, with
a house and garden attached, was endowed, in 1720,
with twenty-five acres of land, yielding about £20 per
annum; the master receives a small quarterage from
the scholars.