Firbank
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Firbank is a village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of the English county of Cumbria. It has a population of 97. As Firbank had a population of less than 100 at the 2011 Census, details are included in the parish of Killington. In 1652, George Fox preached to about 1,000 people at Fox's Pulpit, at one of the meetings which brought about the Quaker movement.
Key facts
- UK place.static_image_name
- Fox's Pulpit - geograph.org.uk - 162374.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Fox's Pulpit
- UK place.official_name
- Firbank
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.region
- North West England
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SD6293
- UK place.population
- 97
- UK place.population_ref
- (2001)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Firbank
- UK place.unitary_england
- Westmorland and Furness
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Cumbria
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Westmorland and Lonsdale
- UK place.post_town
- SEDBERGH
- UK place.postcode_district
- LA10
- UK place.postcode_area
- LA
- UK place.dial_code
- 01539
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- South Lakeland
- Population
- 120
- Image
- Fox's Pulpit - geograph.org.uk - 162374.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01539
Show 5 more facts
- historic county
- Westmorland
- P8168
- Absolon
- Commons category
- Firbank
- OS grid reference
- SD625942
- postal code
- LA10
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Encyclopedic overview
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- References
- External links
Firbank is a village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of the English county of Cumbria. It has a population of 97. As Firbank had a population of less than 100 at the 2011 Census, details are included in the parish of Killington. In 1652, George Fox preached to about 1,000 people at Fox's Pulpit, at one of the meetings which brought about the Quaker movement.
The poet Catherine Grace Godwin is buried at St John the Evangelist Church.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Firbank” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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