Description
Kirkbride, a village and a parish in Cumberland, at the mouth of the Wampool river, 5 1/2 miles NNW of Wigton. There are two stations, one on the Carlisle and Silloth railway, the other (Whitrigg) on the Caledonian railway, and a post office under Silloth (R.S.O.); money order office, Abbey Town; telegraph office, Dmmbnrgh railway station. Acreage, 1667; population, 370. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Carlisle; net value, £170 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Lonsdale. The church is an ancient building in the Norman style. There are also Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
