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.

Adjacent Parishes

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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England, Yorkshire, Kirby Hill – Census ( 4 )
Census returns for Humberton, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

Census returns for Kirby Hill, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

Census returns for Langthorpe, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

Census returns for Milby, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Kirby Hill – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Kirby-Hill, 1637-1861
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Kirby Hill (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Kirby Hill, parish registers, 1574-1933
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Kirby Hill (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

The parish register of Kirby-Hill, 1576-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Kirby Hill (Yorkshire); Browne, A. B.; Charlesworth, John

Parish registers for Kirby-Hill, 1577-1875
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Kirby Hill (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Kirby Hill – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Kirby Hill by Boroughbridge, Yorks., Eng

England, Yorkshire, Kirby Hill – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Humberton and Milby township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

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