opposite the railway station. There is also a surgery on the road between Four Lane Ends and the railway station. It has three places of worship: the parish church, St Cuthbert's in Beck Side; a methodist church in Marshside and a Church of Christ meeting house at Wall End. The village has two pubs, The Commercial at Four Lane Ends and The Ship Inn, which dates from 1691, near the railway station. There is a community centre in Beck Side - refurbished in 2019/20 - with changing rooms for the adjacent recreation ground which has a cricket pitch, a football pitch, a crown bowling green, two hard tennis courts and a children's playground. There is also the old village hall, the Beck Side Rooms, in the old, converted, school buildings. Sport & leisure The cricket club, football club, bowls club and tennis club are all based at the recreation ground in Beck Side. The Kirkby in Furness Cricket Club play league fixtures on a Saturday in the Cumbria Cricket League Division 1 and also midweek fixtures on a Wednesday night in the Furness Cricket League. Kirkby United Football Club play in the Furness Premier League; Kirkby-in-Furness Bowls club play a number of competitive matches throughout the summer months and Kirkby Tennis Club compete in the Duddon Tennis League. The village has a number of active societies, covering a range of interests. These include the History of Kirkby Group, that has a number of publications to its name, the Kirkby Floral and Horticultural Society and the Kirkby Photographic Club. Transport Kirkby is situated on the A595 giving direct access to Askam, Dalton-in-Furness and Barrow-in-Furness to the south and villages and towns on the Cumbria Coast to Whitehaven and beyond. There is a limited bus service for Kirkby, the Blueworks X7 service, running on Wednesdays and Fridays only with the morning bus originating at Coniston and the afternoon bus returning to the same location. This allows a brief return journey to Askam, Dalton and Barrow, the return service leaving Barrow a little over two and a half hours after the inbound service arrives. station is a request stop on the Cumbrian Coast Line, with the rail service being provided by Northern. There are regular services southbound to , a few services continuing further along the Furness Line e.g. to , while most northbound services go to , a few services not continuing