Firby
Firby is a small village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It lies 1-mile south of Bedale. The population of the parish was estimated at 30 in 2015.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 31 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Firby, Bedale”, “Firby, Hambleton”, and “Firby, North Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Thorp Perrow Arboretum and Snape Castle.
Thorp Perrow Arboretum
Photo: Alison Stamp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thorp Perrow Arboretum is an 85-acre woodland garden arboretum near Bedale in North Yorkshire, England.
Snape Castle
Castle
Photo: Alison Stamp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Snape Castle is a semi-fortified manor house in the village of Snape, North Yorkshire, England. The castle is 3 miles south of Bedale and 10 miles north of Ripon.
Bedale Leech House
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
This late Georgian Bedale Leech House in Bedale, North Yorkshire, England, is a unique example of a building constructed to keep live medicinal leeches healthy prior to their sale by the local apothecary to doctors and private individuals for the purpose of blood letting as a medical procedure to cure or prevent a variety of illnesses and diseases.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bedale and Aiskew.
Bedale
Town
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bedale, is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. Bedale Beck is a tributary of the River Swale, which forms one of the Yorkshire Dales.
Aiskew
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Aiskew is a village in the civil parish of Aiskew and Leeming Bar, in North Yorkshire, England. The village is situated to the immediate north-east of Bedale and separated from it by Bedale Beck.
Leeming
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Leeming is a village in North Yorkshire, England. Leeming is situated 2½ miles northeast of Firby.
Firby
- Categories: village, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Hambleton, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.2732° or 54° 16′ 24″ northLongitude
-1.5892° or 1° 35′ 21″ westPopulation
31Elevation
151 feet (46 metres)Open location code
9C6W7CF6+78OpenStreetMap ID
node 29541809OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
7291837Wikidata ID
Q5451232
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Turkish—“Firby” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Фирбй”
- Cebuano: “Firby”
- Dutch: “Firby”
- French: “Firby”
- Irish: “Firby”
- Ladin: “Firby”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Friþibȳ, Hamoltūn”
- Polish: “Firby (Hambleton)”
- Polish: “Firby”
- Swedish: “Firby”
- Turkish: “Firby, Hambleton”
- “Firby”
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