Firbank

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Firbank
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Firbank
Location within Cumbria
Population97 (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
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Ambulance North West
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54°20′31″N2°34′41″W / 54.342°N 2.578°W / 54.342; -2.578 Coordinates: 54°20′31″N2°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.

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The poet Catherine Grace Godwin is buried at St John the Evangelist Church. [2]

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