Ireby, Lancashire

Ireby
Over Hall
Ireby is located in the City of Lancaster district
Ireby
Ireby
Location in the City of Lancaster district
Ireby is located in Lancashire
Ireby
Ireby
Location within Lancashire
Population78 (2001)
OS grid referenceSD654754
Civil parish
  • Ireby
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCARNFORTH
Postcode districtLA6
Dialling code015242
PoliceLancashire
FireLancashire
AmbulanceNorth West
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54°10′23″N 2°31′44″W / 54.173°N 2.529°W / 54.173; -2.529

Ireby is a small hamlet and civil parish on the edge of Lancashire, England, bordering North Yorkshire. It lies in the City of Lancaster, just inside the recently extended boundaries of the Yorkshire Dales, near the community of Masongill. The parish had a population of 78 according to the 2001 Census.[1] In the 2011 census the parish was grouped with Leck. The name means "Town of the Irish Vikings".[2]

Parish and county

Ireby, Lancashire, was formerly included in the parish of Thornton in Lonsdale despite Thornton being in Yorkshire. It was because this area was in the Lonsdale Hundred that the founders of the county of Lancashire claimed the left side of that parish including Ireby. This piece of Lancashire is c6km long and in width tapers from c2km to only about 100m.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Parish headcount" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2006. Retrieved 13 April 2008.
  2. ^ Ireby, Lancashire, England near Cowan Bridge & Leck[usurped]
  3. ^ http://maps.familysearch.org/ Family Search, Historical Maps, England Jurisdictions 1851

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