Firbank

Firbank
Westmorland
Fox's Pulpit
Location
Grid reference:	SD625941
Location:	54°20’31"N, 2°34’40"W
Data
Population:	97  (2001)
Post town:	Sedbergh
Postcode:	LA10
Dialling code:	01539
Local Government
Council:	Westmorland & Furness
Parliamentary constituency:	Westmorland and Lonsdale

Firbank is a tiny village in Westmorland, spread along the B6257 on the west bank of the River Lune in the south-east of the county. It had a population of just 97 in 2011. It gives a name to Firbank Fell, on whose eastern flank the hamlet sits.

Here the Lune forms Westmorland's border with Yorkshire, and the closest town is Sedbergh in the latter county. Beck Foot (a place barely bigger) is to the north, where the M6 motorway scythes through the landscape, to pass just a mile and a half to the west of Firbank.

In 1652, George Fox preached to about 1,000 people at Fox's Pulpit, up the hill just south-west of this hamlet, at one of the meetings which brought about the Quaker movement.

The poet Catherine Grace Godwin is buried at St John the Evangelist Church.

Outside links

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