Firbank

Firbank

Fox's Pulpit
Firbank
Firbank shown within Cumbria
Population 97 (2001)
OS grid reference SD6293
Civil parish
  • Firbank
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town SEDBERGH
Postcode district LA10
Dialling code 01539
Police Cumbria
Fire Cumbria
Ambulance North West
EU Parliament North West England
UK Parliament

Firbank is a village and civil parish in the South Lakeland district of the English county of Cumbria. It has a population of 97.[1] 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.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Office for National Statistics: Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : South Lakeland Retrieved 26 October 2010
  2. ↑ The Poetical Works of the Late Great Catherine Grace Godwin, A.Cleveland Wigan, 1854

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