Static Image Name: | View over Kirkby from Kirkby Moor - geograph.org.uk - 1359824.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | View over Kirkby in Furness from Kirkby Moor |
Official Name: | Kirkby Ireleth |
Country: | England |
Region: | North West England |
Os Grid Reference: | SD2282 |
Coordinates: | 54.232°N -3.19°W |
Population: | 1,174 |
Population Ref: | (2011) Including Angerton |
Civil Parish: | Kirkby Ireleth |
Shire District: | South Lakeland |
Shire County: | Cumbria |
Constituency Westminster: | Barrow and Furness |
Post Town: | KIRKBY IN FURNESS |
Postcode District: | LA17 |
Postcode Area: | LA |
Dial Code: | 01229 |
Kirkby Ireleth is a civil parish in the South Lakeland district of the English county of Cumbria. It includes the villages of Grizebeck and Kirkby-in-Furness - which is really a collection of six different hamlets, namely: Soutergate, Wall End, Beck Side, Sand Side, Marshside and Chapels; and other outlying settlements including Bailiff Ground, Gargreave, Friars' Ground, Beanthwaite, Dove Bank, Dove Ford and Woodland. The parish had a population of 1,247 at the 2001 Census.[1] At the 2011 census Kirkby Ireleth was grouped with Angerton giving a total population of 1,174.