A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
FIRBANK, a township-chapelry in Kirkby-Lonsdale parish, Westmoreland; near the river Lune, the boundary with Yorkshire, the Ingleton railway, and the Sedbergh r. station, 10 miles N of Kirkby-Lonsdale. Post town, Middleton-in-Lonsdale, under Burton, Westmoreland. Acres, 3, 017. Real property, £1, 453. Pop., 345. Houses, 47. The property is much subdivided. Much of the land is moor and mountain; and a conspicuous part of it is Firbank fell. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £83.* Patron, the Vicar of Kirkby-Lonsdale. The church is good.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township-chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Firbank Ch/CP Kirkby Lonsdale AP/CP Westmorland AncC |
| Place: | Firbank |
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