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.
[edit] Glassonby Civil Parish
The 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.
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