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Template:GBthumb Kirkby-in-Furness is a village in the Furness peninsula, part of the administrative county 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 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 and 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 in Kirkby stems from the development of Burlington Slate. Houses at 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 population works for the company.
The nearby Kirkby Moor rises to 334 m (1098 ft) above sea level and is dominated by the local wind turbines.
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