Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FIRBECK

FIRBECK, a parish in Worksop district and W. R. Yorkshire; adjacent to Notts, 4 miles SSW of Tickhill, and 6 NNW of Worksop r. station. It includes part of the hamlet of Stone; and its post town is Letwell, under Worksop. Acres, 1, 330. Real property, £2, 323. Pop., 195. Houses, 42. Firbeck Hall is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Letwell, in the diocese of York. -Value, £300.* Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is later English. Charities, £5.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Firbeck Ch/AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Firbeck

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