FLIMBY, Cumberland - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"FLIMBY, a parish in the ward of Allerdale-below-Derwent, county Cumberland, 2 miles S. of Maryport, its post town, and 7 N. W. of Cockermouth. It is situated on the western coast, and has a station on the Whitehaven Junction line of railway. Here are extensive collieries, giving employment to a large number of the inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Carlisle, value £82, in the gift of the landowners. The church is a small edifice of rough stone dedicated to St. Nicholas. There is a parochial school. There are several good residences, and accommodation for visitors, who come here for the sea-bathing."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]