Hide

Flookburgh

hide
Hide

The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"FLOOKBURGH, (or Flookborough), a chapelry in the parish of Cartmel, hundred of Lonsdale, county palatine Lancaster, 2 miles S.W. of Cartmel and 5 E. of Ulverston. Newton-in-Cartmel is its post town. It includes the township of Lower Holker. The Ulverston road passes through the village, which was once a market town. Iron ore is obtained in the neighbourhood, and there is a chalybeate spring. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Carlisle, value £121. The church is a stone structure dedicated to St. Mary. There are charities producing about £16 per annum. Here is a school for both sexes."