KIRKBY-LONSDALE, a market-town of England, county of Westmoreland, on the right bank of the Lune, 11 miles S.E. of Kendal. It is well built of freestone, and has a fine church, with a tower and peal of bells, and a free grammar school, with 6 exhibitions to Christ's College, Cambridge. Pop. 1675. The Earl of Lonsdale takes his title from this place.