Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KIRKBRIDE

KIRKBRIDE, a parish in Wigton district, Cumberland; at the influx of the Wampool river to Morecambe bay, and on the Carlisle and Silloth railway, 5½ miles NNW of Wigton. It has a station on the railway; and its post townis Wigton. Acres, 1, 654; of which 50 are water. Real property, £1, 929. Pop., 311. Houses, 66. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £230.* Patron, the Earl of Lonsdale. The church is good.


(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: Kirkbride CP/AP       Wigton RegD/PLU       Cumberland AncC
Place: Kirkbride

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