Kirby on the Moor Yorkshire Family History Guide
Kirby on the Moor is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Milby, Langthorpe, Humberton with Milby, and Humberton.
Alternative names: Kirby Hill, Kirkby on the Moor
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1576
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1637
Nonconformists include: Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Myton on Swale
- Marton le Moor
- Aldborough (West Riding)
- Brafferton
- Boroughbridge (West Riding)
- Norton le Clay
- Skelton cum Newby (West Riding)
- Roecliffe (West Riding)
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
KIRBY-HILL, or Kirby-on-the-Moor, a village, a township, and a parish, in the district of Ripon and N. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on an eminence, near the river Ure, 1 mile NNW of Boroughbridge r. station; and commands a view to York and Ripon cathedral, and to sixteen churches.
The township comprises 790 acres. Real property, £2, 461. Pop., 158. Houses, 35.
The parish contains also the township of Langthorpe. Posttown, Boroughbridge, under York. Acres, 1, 956. Real property, with the rest of Humberton, £6, 759. Pop., 462. Houses, 98. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £400. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a stone structure, with an embattled tower; and contains some fine Norman arches.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Ripon
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Eastern Deaneries – Boroughbridge
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Boroughbridge
- Poor Law Union: Great Ouseburn Gilbert Union
- Hundred: Hallikeld
- Province: York