Firbank

For the school in Victoria, Australia, see Firbank Girls' Grammar School. For people with the surname Firbank, see Firbank (surname).

Firbank
Fox's Pulpit
Firbank Firbank shown within Cumbria
Population	97 (2001)
OS grid reference	SD6293
Civil parish	Firbank
District	South Lakeland
Shire county	Cumbria
Region	North West
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	Westmorland and Lonsdale
List of places UK England Cumbria

Coordinates: 54°20′31″N 2°34′41″W / 54.342°N 2.578°W / 54.342; -2.578

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]

References

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

External links

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Boroughs or districts	City of Carlisle Borough of Allerdale Borough of Barrow-in-Furness Borough of Copeland District of Eden District of South Lakeland

Major settlements	Alston Ambleside Appleby-in-Westmorland Aspatria Barrow-in-Furness Bowness-on-Windermere Brampton Broughton-in-Furness Carlisle Cleator Moor Cockermouth Dalton-in-Furness Egremont Grange-over-Sands Harrington Kendal Keswick Kirkby Lonsdale Kirkby Stephen Longtown Maryport Millom Penrith Sedbergh Silloth Ulverston Whitehaven Wigton Windermere Workington See also: List of civil parishes in Cumbria

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