Ireby, Lancashire
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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]
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- Abbeystead
- Abraham Heights
- Aldcliffe
- Arkholme
- Aughton
- Bank Houses
- Bare
- Bay Horse
- Bolton-le-Sands
- Borwick
- Cantsfield
- Caton
- Claughton
- Cockerham
- Conder Green
- Cowan Bridge
- Dolphinholme
- Ellel
- Galgate
- Glasson
- Gressingham
- Halton
- Heysham
- Hornby
- Ireby
- Lower Thurnham
- Melling
- Middleton
- Nether Burrow
- Nether Kellet
- Over Kellet
- Overton
- Poulton-le-Sands
- Priest Hutton
- Quernmore
- Scotforth
- Silverdale
- Skerton
- Slyne
- Stodday
- Sunderland
- Tatham
- Tewitfield
- Torrisholme
- Tunstall
- Upper Thurnham
- Warton
- Wennington
- Whittington
- Wray
- Yealand Conyers
- Yealand Redmayne
- Yealand Storrs
- Aldcliffe-with-Stodday
- Arkholme-with-Cawood
- Bolton-le-Sands
- Borwick
- Burrow-with-Burrow
- Cantsfield
- Carnforth
- Caton-with-Littledale
- Claughton
- Cockerham
- Ellel
- Gressingham
- Halton-with-Aughton
- Heaton-with-Oxcliffe
- Hornby-with-Farleton
- Ireby
- Leck
- Melling-with-Wrayton
- Middleton
- Morecambe
- Nether Kellet
- Over Kellet
- Over Wyresdale
- Overton
- Priest Hutton
- Quernmore
- Roeburndale
- Scotforth
- Silverdale
- Slyne-with-Hest
- Tatham
- Thurnham
- Tunstall
- Warton
- Wennington
- Whittington
- Wray-with-Botton
- Yealand Conyers
- Yealand Redmayne
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