Description
Firbank, a township-chapelry in Kirkby Lonsdale parish, Westmorland, near the river Lune, the boundary with Yorkshire, 10 miles N of Kirkby Lonsdale, and 2 from Low Gill station on the L. & N.W.R. Post town, Sedbergh (R.S.O.) Acreage, 2985; population, 199. Much of the land is moor and mountain, and a conspicuous part of it is Firbank Fell. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Carlisle ; net value, £146 with residence.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
