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Great Corby

Great Corby is a village in northern Cumbria, England, above the eastern bank of a wooded gorge on the River Eden.

Great Corby
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The place

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. 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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Great Corby

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 74 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 124 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 131 km
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Great Corby
    78 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £8–11
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Great Corby
    123 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £15–20
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Great Corby
    133 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £15–20
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Great Corby

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Great Corby. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA75 runs from Stranraer (for the Belfast and Larne ferries) via Dumfries.
  • Get inBuses no longer run along the Solway coast from Stranraer ferry port, you have to double back via Glasgow, Borders Bus X95 runs from Edinburgh along A7 via Galashiels, Selkirk, Hawick and Longtown.

From Wikivoyage: Carlisle, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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  2. 02
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  3. 03
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  4. 04
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    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

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