[3] The parish is served by one public house, the Stag Inn, and a primary school (both in Crosby).

The earliest form of the name was 'Crosseby' (1123–50), from the Old Norse "'krossa býr' meaning 'bȳ (village, hamlet) marked by crosses'.

Being known for its history as the location where salt was produced from the 1630s until about 1760, it is thought that some of the worker's cottages were constructed in this village at the same time.

The southwest view includes a Viking era gravestone in the lower centre to the church wall.

Some of the stonework in the original construction is believed to have come from earlier Roman settlement in the Crosscanonby area.

Outside the church is the tomb of local salt tax officer John Smith, who died in 1730.

It first began as a Solway Plain Rural Initiative Project, which evolved from a vandalised site.

Crosscanonby Carr now provides a wetland, meadow and woodland refuge for numerous animals, birds and plants.

Milefortlet 21 was part of a system of defence, including Hadrian's Wall, developed to protect this far-flung corner of the Roman Empire.

Sleech is the sand from the beach; the Kinch where it was piled up is the large pond, sealed by puddled clay.

These pans were seen as a tourist attraction up until when the caravan site was abandoned in the 1970s as a result of coastal erosion.

[16] Later in the mid-1980s, the significance of the Salt pans was realised leading to the redevelopment of the historical monument after some research had been carried out.

[16] To protect the Salt pans, emergency work which included building a wooden palisade around the most affected site was carried out.