Kirby on the Moor Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Kirby on the Moor or Kirby Hill 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 registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1576
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1637

Nonconformists include: Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Kirby Hill Parish Registers

Yorkshire Kirby Hill Parish Register, 1576-1812

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].

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