[4] However, woody debris dams, as a form of natural flood management, have been built in the Penny Gill forest by the West Cumbria Rivers Trust, as a way of storing water temporarily upstream and reducing what the culverts need to carry.

[6] The site of the successive former Flimby Methodist churches in West Lane (built in 1862 and about 1929) is now occupied by a house.

[citation needed] Flimby has three Grade II historic buildings listed by English Heritage.

Flimby Cottage in Main Road is an early 19th-century pebble dash lodge in Gothic Revival style.

Flimby Lodge is a mansion dating from the late 18th or early 19th century, derelict at the time it was listed in 1977.