KIRKHAM, an extra-parochial tract, in the district of Malton and E. R. Yorkshire; on the river Derwent, and on the York and Scarborongh railway, 6 miles SW of Malton. It has a station on the railway, a post office under York, and a fair on the Saturday before Trinity Sunday. Acres, 290. Real property, £492. Pop., 56. Houses, 8. The property belongs to E.Taylor, Esq. An Augustinian priory was founded here, in 1121, by Sir Walter Espec; was given, at the dissolution, to Henry Kuyvet; and has left some interesting remains, including a beautiful gate of the time of Edward I., a Norman doorway, the E end of the choir, and part of the cloisters.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))