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Warwick Bridge
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St. Mary's and St. Wilfrid's Church, Warwick Bridge
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Warwick Bridge
Location in the former City of Carlisle district, Cumbria
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Warwick Bridge
Location within Cumbria
Population1,264 (Census 2011) [1]
OS grid reference NY474567
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Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town CARLISLE
Postcode district CA4
Dialling code 01228
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54°54′11″N2°49′08″W / 54.903°N 2.819°W / 54.903; -2.819

Warwick Bridge is a village in the Cumberland area of the county of Cumbria, England. [2] It forms part of a small urban area which includes the villages of Corby Hill and Little Corby.

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Warwick Bridge lies within the civil parish of Wetheral though Corby Hill and Little Corby are in Hayton parish.

Warwick Bridge is located on the River Eden and the A69 road, near the River Irthing. It is five miles east of the city of Carlisle and four miles from the town of Brampton. The bridge on the Eden, which gave the village its name, was built from 1833 to 1835 by Francis Giles. [3] [4]

The village has a post office in Corby Hill, [5] a Co-operative Food store [6] and 2 churches, one being Our Lady & St Wilfrid's Church [7] and the other St Paul's Holme Eden. [8] There are two large mansion houses near or in the village, Warwick Hall and Holme Eden Hall built in 1837. [9]

People

Ambulance driver and nurse Pat Waddell was born here in 1892. She returned to the front after losing a leg in WW1. [10]

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Catharine Washington known as Pat Waddell born Catharine Marguerite Beauchamp Waddell was a British volunteer ambulance driver, writer and member of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY). She lost a leg but returned in the First World War and she then served again in the Second World War. She was awarded the French Croix de Guerre, the Belgian Médaille de la reine Élisabeth and the Polish Grand Cross of Merit.

References

  1. ↑ citypopulation.de, retrieved 26 June 2014.
  2. ↑ general information, explorebritain.info, retrieved 26 June 2014.
  3. ↑ Rennison, RW (1996). Civil Engineering Heritage: Northern England. p. 108. ISBN   0-7277-2518-1.
  4. ↑ "Warwick Bridge". Historic England. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  5. ↑ "Post office Corby Hill in Carlisle". Royal Mail. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  6. ↑ "Warwick Bridge". Co-op. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  7. ↑ Warwick Bridge – Our Lady & St Wilfrid’s Church, visitcumbria.com, retrieved 26 June 2014.
  8. ↑ "St Paul's Holme Eden". A Church Near You . Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  9. ↑ Warwick Bridge, visitcumbria.com, retrieved 26 June 2014.
  10. ↑ Beardwood, Lynette (2004). "Washington [née Waddell], Catharine Marguerite Beauchamp [Pat] (1892–1972), volunteer ambulance driver and member of the FANY" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/70525. ISBN   978-0-19-861412-8 . Retrieved 12 March 2020.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)


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