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Corby Glen lies at grid reference TF0025 in South Kesteven, in Lincolnshire. Until the 1950s, it was simply Corby, Lincolnshire but in the next county, Northamptonshire, another Corby had been greatly enlarged by the addition of a steel works and housing to match. There had been numerous examples of confusion so British Rail consulted the inhabitants and the additional name was chosen to distinguish the two. It comes from the name of the river which flows through the village. The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ...
South Kesteven is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county . ...
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the east of England. ...
Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A county is generally a sub-unit of regional self-government within a sovereign jurisdiction. ...
Northamptonshire (abbreviated Northants or Nhants) is a landlocked county in central England with a population of 629,676 (2001 census). ...
Corby is an industrial town and a local government district located 13km north of Kettering in Northamptonshire, England. ...
Geography
Location It lies mainly to the north of the A151, an old toll road, and to the east of the River Glen, near where the Glen flows through a small graben in the Jurassic limestone. The River Glen is a river in Lincolnshire , England. ...
USGS image A graben is a depressed block of land bordered by parallel faults. ...
The Jurassic Period is a major unit of the geologic timescale that extends from about 199. ...
Economy It lies in agricultural country and still maintains an annual sheep fair in October, though the economics of sheep farming has much reduced it in recent years. Corby Glen's saw-mill has moved to the former railway station 1½ kilometres from the village. Though the station is closed, the railway, which is the London to Edinburgh line, is very busy. It was part of the track on which the London & North Eastern Railway's locomotive, Mallard achieved its steam speed record. Australian Sheep Sheep husbandry is the raising and breeding of domestic sheep. ...
Mallard at York Number 4468 Mallard is a London and North Eastern Railway Class A4 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive built in the 1930s by the LNER and designed by Sir Nigel Gresley in England. ...
Culture There is very little in Corby Glen. It is quite dull.
Adult The church is well known for its medieval wall paintings. The Willoughby Gallery, in the 17th century building, formerly of the Charles Read Grammar School, is open to the public. (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ...
A grammar school is a school that may, depending on regional usage as exemplified below, provide either secondary education or, a much less common usage, primary education (also known as elementary). Grammar schools trace their origins back to medieval Europe, as schools in which university preparatory subjects, such as Latin...
Juvenile Also there is very good community of children and teenagers with the independent will to help around the village. In this small village, there are two schools: one secondary; and one primary.
External links Coordinates: 52.81328° N 0.51775° W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
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