Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BIRBECK-FELLS

BIRBECK-FELLS, a township in Orton and Crosby-Ravensworth parishes, Westmoreland; on the Birbeck stream, and on the Lancaster and Carlisle railway, 4 miles SSE of Shap. Real property, £1,054. Pop., 200. Most of the surface is wild moor and mountain.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Westmorland AncC
Place: Birkbeck Fells

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