The Port Carlisle Railway Company filled in the canal and rail passenger services commenced in 1854. The Carlisle Navigation Canal (1821–1853) ran slightly to the east of the village, reaching the Solway at Port Carlisle. ![]() The barony was a bulwark against Scottish invasion across the Solway Transport Canals ![]() The village lies in the old Barony of Burgh, dating from 1092, the baron now being the Earl of Lonsdale. Between 18 the OS maps show that the village experienced a gradual expansion up to approximately 68 dwellings, aided by the establishment of the railway station on the line to Port Carlisle and to Carlisle via Drumburgh. The 1838 tithe map shows 32 dwelling in Glasson with the same alignment. The earliest map from the mid-eighteenth century shows a rural hamlet aligned along the course of the old vallum and made up of 21 dwellings. A sandstone building stone inscribed " Legions II Aug Coh III" was found in the vicinity of Glasson in the 18th century. No trace of the vallum is now visible within the village itself, however its earthworks are clearly visible in the fields to the east. The line of the Vallum (National Monument number 26122) of Hadrians Wall, dating from 128AD-130AD runs through the village. ![]() The place name derives from the Anglo-Scandinavian glaise, meaning "a small stream". Glasson is a hamlet in Cumbria, England, just inland from the Solway coast, eight miles (13 km) northwest of Carlisle on the course of Hadrian's Wall near Drumburgh.
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