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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Kirby Hill like this:
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.
Kirby Hill is now part of NORTH YORKSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTH YORKSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Kirby Hill itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Kirby Hill, in North Yorkshire and North Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13199
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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