FIRBANK, a chapelry in the parish of KIRKBYLONSDALE,
LONSDALE ward, county of WESTMORLAND,
10 miles (N.) from Kirkby-Lonsdale, containing 209
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in fee
archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £600 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Kirkby-
Lonsdale. The chapel and burying-ground are on the
edge of an extensive moor. The chapelry is bounded
on the west by the river Lune, which separates it from
Yorkshire.