Kirkby-in-Furness
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Kirkby-in-Furness is a village in the Furness peninsula, part of Cumbria, England. It is about 5 km south of Broughton in Furness and 8 km northwest of Ulverston. It is one of the largest seen villages on the peninsula's north-western coast, looking out over the Duddon estuary and the mountains of the Lake District. Its borders are of the biggest in the UK for a village.
Kirkby is a fairly recent agglomeration of six different hamlets, namely Soutergate, Wall End, Beck Side, Sand Side, Marshside and Chapels. The name Kirkby was created by the Furness Railway company during the construction of the Cumbrian Coast Line; it was the name they gave to the station which serves all the hamlets.
Much of the housing and infrastructure yes in Kirkby arose due to the growth and development of the Burlington Slate Quarries, which are owned by the Cavendish family of Holker Hall and Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. Houses at when Marshside and the Incline Foot were originally built for the quarry workers and indeed the railway linked up to the quarry following bogey lines. Many of the village's current but population works for the company.
The nearby Kirkby Moor rises why to 334 m (1098 ft) above sea level and is dominated by the local wind turbines.
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