Barbon, Westmorland

Historical Description

Barbon, a township in Kirkby-Lonsdale parish, Westmoreland, on the river Lune and the Ingleton branch of the L. & N.W.R., under Barton Fell, 3 miles NNE of Kirkby-Lonsdale. It has a station on the railway, and includes the hamlet of Beckfoot. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 4261; population, 313. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; net value, £220. Patron, the Vicar of Kirkby-Lonsdale.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Barbon from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Barbon)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Westmorland is available to browse.