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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Birkbeck Fells like this:
BIRBECK-FELLS, a township in Orton and Crosby-Ravensworth parishes, Westmoreland; on the Birbeck stream, and on the Lancaster and Carlisle railway, 4 miles SSE of Shap. Real property, £1,054. Pop., 200. Most of the surface is wild moor and mountain.
Birkbeck Fells is now part of WESTMORLAND AND FURNESS Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how WESTMORLAND AND FURNESS has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Birkbeck Fells itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Birkbeck Fells, in Westmorland and Furness and Westmorland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22867
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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