Crosby Garrett

Crosby Garrett
St. Andrew's Church
Crosby Garrett is located in Cumbria
Crosby Garrett
Crosby Garrett
Location within Cumbria
Population195 
OS grid referenceNY7209
Civil parish
  • Crosby Garrett
Unitary authority
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townKIRKBY STEPHEN
Postcode districtCA17
Dialling code01768
PoliceCumbria
FireCumbria
AmbulanceNorth West
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Cumbria
54°28′44″N 2°25′12″W / 54.479°N 2.420°W / 54.479; -2.420

Crosby Garrett is a hamlet and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness Unitary Authority of Cumbria, England. It was formerly in the county of Westmorland. In the 2011 census Crosby Garrett was grouped with Waitby to give a total of 195.[1]

The place-name 'Crosby Garrett' is first attested in a document of 1200, where it appears as Crosseby, and in another of 1206, where it appears as Crossebi Gerard. The first name is Old Scandinavian Krossa-byr, meaning 'village or homestead with crosses'. 'Garrett' is the French personal name 'Gerard', which is ultimately of Germanic origin.[2]

In May 2010 the Crosby Garrett Helmet, a copper alloy parade helmet dating to Roman Britain, was discovered near the hamlet by a father and son using a metal detector. The helmet was sold to a private buyer at Christie's later that year for £2.3 million.

  1. ^ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Crosby Garrett Parish (E04002527)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  2. ^ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.132.