Great Corby

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Great Corby is a village in northern Cumbria, England, above the eastern bank of a wooded gorge on the River Eden. Directly across the river from Great Corby is the village of Wetheral. The two villages are linked by a railway viaduct (Corby Bridge, popularly known as 'Wetheral Viaduct'). This is on the Tyne Valley Line from Newcastle to Carlisle, which passes to the north of the village. The railway station at Wetheral is accessible to residents of Great Corby by a pedestrian footpath attached to the railway viaduct.

Administratively Great Corby lies within the civil parish of Wetheral and thus forms part of the district administered as the City of Carlisle.

The village contains two pubs: the Queen Inn in the centre of the village (closed as of October 2007), and the Corby Bridge Inn beside the level crossing on the railway at the northern entrance to the village. There is also a primary school. There is no church, the village forming part of Wetheral parish. The village's Methodist chapel closed in the mid 80's, and the building is now a private house.

Great Corby is notable for Corby Castle, a historic home of the Howard family on the southern edge of the village overlooking the river. Corby Castle is now owned by Northern Irish businessman Edward Haughey, the brother of former Irish Taoiseach Charles Haughey.