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Firbank Cumbria Map

Traditional county: Cumbria · Unitary authority: Westmorland and Furness · Region: North West

Explore Firbank, Cumbria with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Firbank map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.

Interactive Map of Firbank, Cumbria

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Place	Firbank
Traditional County	Cumbria
Unitary Authority	Westmorland and Furness
Region	North West
Country	England, United Kingdom

Latitude	54.342405
Longitude	-2.577890
Place Type	Hamlet

About Firbank

Firbank sits as a rugged outcrop of high, wind-bitten pasture overlooking the deep, limestone-scoured valleys of the Lune. It lies 2.4 miles west-north-west of Sedbergh (from Sedbergh: bearing 303°T, OS grid SD 625 942). The land here carries the weight of a hard, ancient geology, where the earth rises in sudden, muscular ridges that catch the first grey light of the Cumbrian dawn. To the east, the dark, stagnant waters of Pipe Dub mirror the shifting clouds, offering a cold contrast to the vibrant, moss-slicked silence of the surrounding fells. George Fox, the founder of the Religious Society of Friends, famously preached to a vast assembly on the slopes of Firbank Fell in 1652, forever marking the hillside with the gravity of his conviction. Below these heights, the land drops toward the hidden, rushing course of the Ullswheel, where the water carves its path through stone with a persistent, grinding patience. The economy of Firbank remains tethered to the slow, seasonal turn of sheep farming, a life defined by the resilience of the flock against the biting exposure of the peaks. Every stone wall here acts as a boundary against the wild, built by hands that understood the unforgiving nature of a landscape where the horizon is always wider than the hearth.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Howgill Loups (Lake / Reservoir) — 0.3 mi, 109° ESE
Pipe Dub (Lake / Reservoir) — 0.3 mi, 101° E
Slape Clints (Lake / Reservoir) — 0.3 mi, 091° E
Knotts (Hill / Mountain) — 0.4 mi, 213° SSW
Ullswheel (River) — 0.4 mi, 026° NNE
Capplethwaite Beck (River) — 0.7 mi, 239° WSW
Smathorn Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 1.1 mi, 245° WSW
Queen's Garden (Park) — 2.2 mi, 134° SE
Castlehaw Tower, Motte And Bailey Castle And Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post (Scheduled Monument) — 2.6 mi, 117° ESE
Millthrop Mill (Attraction) — 2.9 mi, 130° SE
Black Force (Waterfall) — 3.3 mi, 022° NNE
The Spout (Waterfall) — 3.5 mi, 022° NNE
Farfield Mill (Attraction) — 3.5 mi, 114° ESE
Great Force Gill Rigg (Valley) — 3.7 mi, 058° ENE
Red Gill Washfold (Public Artwork) — 3.7 mi, 060° ENE
Langdale, Bowderdale And Carlin Gill Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 3.9 mi, 031° NNE · 18k acres
Saucer Barrow, 350M East Of Middleton Hall (Scheduled Monument) — 4.2 mi, 174° S
Middleton Hall, Curtain Wall With Gatehouse (Scheduled Monument) — 4.2 mi, 178° S
Burns Beck Moss Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 4.4 mi, 205° SSW · 20 ha
Roman Milestone (Monument) — 5.2 mi, 181° S
Blake Mire (Wetland) — 5.3 mi, 098° E
Monument to Lucy Elam (Monument) — 5.6 mi, 133° SE
Dent Village Heritage Centre & Museum (Museum) — 6.5 mi, 132° SE
Kendal Castle (Castle) — 6.5 mi, 259° W
Kendal Museum (Museum) — 6.6 mi, 264° W
The Box (Theatre) — 6.6 mi, 263° W
Quaker Tapestry Museum (Museum) — 6.7 mi, 262° W
Ford Park (Park) — 6.8 mi, 254° WSW
The Helm (Viewpoint) — 6.8 mi, 239° WSW
Museum of Lakeland Life & Industry (Museum) — 6.9 mi, 259° W

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