Firbeck, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Firbeck, a village, a township, and a parish in W.R. Yorkshire, adjacent to Notts, 4 miles SSW of Tickhill. and 6 KNW of Worksop railway station. The parish includes the township of Letwell, and part of the hamlet of Stone. It has a post and telegraph office under Rotherham; money order office, Tickhill. The area of the township is 1297 acres; population, 187; of the civil and ecclesiastical parish, 273. Firbeck Hall, standing in a park of 70 acres, is the residence of the Jebb family. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Letwell, in the diocese of York; gross value, £320 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is a small stone building in the Norman style, and was thoroughly restored in 1887.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Firbeck St. Peter | |
Poor Law union | Worksop | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Upper Strafforth and Tickhill |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with various Archives, Local Studies, and Family History Societies have the following parish records online for Firbeck:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1721-1914 | 1722-1930 | 1721-1812 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Firbeck from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Firbeck (St. Peter))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the West Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Firbeck are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following West Riding newspapers online: