Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Firby is a Yorkshire borough containing two townships in the wapentakes of Buckrose, East Riding and Hang East, North Riding (liberty of Richmondshire). The Buckrose half has 526 acres of land, and within, there are 29 acres of glebe land. The Hang East half has 685 acres. Table of contents 1 Neighborhoods 2 Bowers 3 Rails 4 Gates 5 Becks 6 Woods 7 Mine 8 Namesakes 9 Historic notes Neighborhoods Firby (Buckrose) Hall is an ancient building, seated on an eminence, whence it commands some very fine views of the surrounding country. The grounds cover about seven acres. (Hang East) Hall is similar. The Halls hold court and enforce bylaw. They hold political seat and recreational club establishments, such as Huttons Ambo Angling Club, which angles the Derwent River and Firby Beck (Buckrose). St. Mary's Vicarage House: A new St. Mary's Vicarage House was erected in 1869, by the Rev. R. Kitching, M.A. (then vicar), at a cost of about £1,400. It stands near the junction of the Malton, Westow, and Firby roads, in the township of Firby, and was used for the accommodation of clergymen who, from time to time, assisted in the ministerial work of the Westow parish, and the staff clerks employed by the Church of England Burial, Funeral, and Mourning Reform Association. This association, the object of which is indicated by its name, was founded by the Rev. Frederick Lawrence, the vicar of the time, who was also its honorary secretary. He resided in the old Vicarage House, in the village of Westow. At the junction of the Firby, Westow, and York roads is the base of an ancient wayside cross. The shaft is gone, but the socket in which it was fixed, remains, and the children of Westow on Holy Thursday of each year fill it with flowers. (Buckrose) Firby or Christ's: Hospital, (Hang East) John Clapham, Esq. one of the six clerks in Chancery in 1608, built a master's house and six brethren's almhouses in the early part of the 17th century. The rector and the four and twenty of Bedale parish were constituted by the founder governors of the Hospital. It's oak panels were removed to John Smith's The King's Head tavern. Today, the hospital has a self-catering service - A traditional cottage with a lovely stepped terrace garden stretching down to the banks of the river Ure, and is the residence of The Nidderdale & District Amateur Cricket League Umpires Secretary. Firby Croft. is a small tenant area for workers of Firby Wood and Firby Mine. Bowers Firby; (Hang East) Grange or grainage, to store the Beck Fields harvest. Firby; Beck Fields, Cereal grasses chiefly of wheat, oat and barley, with limestone subsoil. (Buckrose) Firby: Farmhouses, one for each Firby Hall. Ash Bank: (Hang East) Low Ash Bank situates the farmhouse; High Ash Bank situates the Ash grove on bank. Manley, rented farmhouse. (Hang East) Mile, rented farmhouse. (Hang East) Coldwell, rented plantation chiefly with turnips with limestone subsoil. (Buckrose) Jeffery Bog, rented plantation, chiefly with turnips with limestone subsoil. (Buckrose) Rails North-Eastern; (Buckrose) York and Scarborough railway passes through. Gates Firby Road; (Buckrose+Hang East) main paved roads. Centenary Way is a footpath that arbitrarily bisects Firby and extends throughout Yorkshire. Becks Firby Beck; (Buckrose) source of Old Stell beck. Bedale Beck; (Hang East) Bedale parish-wide beck, north of the township. Derwent River; (Buckrose) where the township is situated. Ure River; (Hang East) which created Uredale and is south of the hospital. Woods Firby Wood of Fir and chief reason for the name of the borough. Hunting is familiar, including foxhounding. Mine Firby Mine. A vein of iron ore runs through the township. An attempt was made in the 1800s to work this vein. Two shafts were sunk, but operations were carried no further, and the scheme was abandoned. Namesakes S.S. Firby, a British steamer during World War I. Sunk by German U-boat commander Herman Schultz. Firby Close, Stockton-On-Tees. Firby Lane, Ripon. Firby Cemetery, Bayham, Elgin Co., Ontario, Canada. Firby neighborhood in York Co., Virginia, U.S.A Firby Road in York Co., Virginia, U.S.A. Furby's Cove, a village, located at 47°36'00"N, 55°49'59"W in the Harbour Breton region of the Central Region county, Newfoundland by the Grand Banks, Canada. Furby's Cove Cemetery in Newfoundland by the Grand Banks, as written above. Historic notes Firby is named after Furby, Västerås kommun, Västmanlands län, Västmanland landskap, Svealand landsdelar, Sverige rik (Sweden). When Denmark ruled Konungariket(Kingdom) of Jøfurvik>Jorvik>York for a short period of time, Sweden was greatly affected by Danish politics, including the ranks of the Great Heathen Army under Halfdan Wide-Embrace Ragnarsson of Uppsala and Ivar the Boneless Ragnarssen of Sjaelland, as well as the Great Summer Army under Guthrum in East Angelland(England) to form the mark of the Danelaw. The two bønde sons from Furby seized the land for their own, with their hired men to enforce the coup, as payment for serving in the Great Heathen Army. The land was a manorial fief before typical feudalism was set underway by William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, bastard to the English throne, and the villages shown above were originally native English. Neither town had any connection or political unity beforehand. The division of wapentake and riding do not affect the political unity of the borough Firby, ruled in highest by Baron or from Viking times, Earl. The namesakes of Firby were transplanted by descendants of the Hall's lordship in expatriation, to English lands, no less. The borough is mostly distant of relation to Firby burgherage, the purer stock has since sought different, richer lands in former British colonies in order to regain wealth lost by Industrialization and Urbanization, which cut agricultural earnings immensely. Homebound Firbys still pursue British politics of Northern England, especially around Yorkshire. A famous bearer of the name, across the pond, is one R. James Firby of Chicago University, who is a highly respected teaching staff member of the Computer Science Department & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory scientist, having experimented with most notably, Chip, the test robot, instructing it to perform numerous tasks. This is keeping in an eery false tradition of artifices and the names associated to Furby, such as the popular child's toy, which wasn't created by a Firby/Furby. Another Firby well known, is Charles G. Firby, postage stamp auctioneer of Waterford, Michigan, U.S.A. Apparently, the economic bust of England's Landed social class only served to inspire these burghers to seek new ways of life for money, and it is hard-earned, true Yorkshire style. Furby/Firbys tend to inhabit colonized York placenames, or at least have their expatriated footprints beginning there, keeping up the love and respect for small town York culture. As with most Yorkshire folks, they are quite iron willed and blunt, quaint. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.