Glassonby

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Glassonby is a small village in the Eden Valley about 2 miles south south east of Kirkoswald, Cumbria.

There is a methodist church and a microlight flying centre in the village.

The Anglican church of St. Michael just to the south of the village is not the parish church of Glassonby but of Addingham. The village of Addingham lay near the River Eden but was lost centuries ago when the river changed its course. The church was rebuilt using some stones from the original and the name kept for the parish.

Addingham parish was divided into a number of civil parishes in 1866.

The ashes of Rev G. Bramwell Evens, who was a popular broadcaster of the 1930s, were scattered at Old Parks Farm. He was a regular visitor to Glassonby in the 1920s and 30s. He is commemorated by a memorial at Old Parks which reads 'Sacred to the memory of Rev G. Bramwell Evens, "Romany of the BBC", whose ashes are scattered here. Born 1884. Died Nov 1943. He loved birds and trees and flowers and the wind on the heath'^[1].

[edit] Glassonby Civil Parish

The civil parish of Glassonby stretches from the banks of the River Eden to the summits of the North Pennines where it borders with Alston Moor. As well as Glassonby itself it includes the village of Gamblesby (a separate civil parish until 1934) and the hamlets of Glassonbybeck, Maughanby and Unthank (Glassonby).