Kirby Hill, Harrogate
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 Kirby Hill, the Green |
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| Kirby Hill shown within North Yorkshire | |
| Population | 391 (2011) |
| OS grid reference | SE389683 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | YORK |
| Postcode district | YO51 9 |
| Police | North Yorkshire |
| Fire | North Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| EU Parliament | Yorkshire and the Humber |
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Kirby Hill is a small rural village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It lies approximately one mile north of the market town of Boroughbridge just east of the A1M motorway. Formerly known as Kirby-on-the-Moor, the village is surrounded by open countryside on 3 sides and affords long-range views towards the North Yorks Moors and the Yorkshire Dales.
Kirby Hill's pre-Norman origins are confirmed by the Church of All Saints, Kirby-on-the-Moor, built in 986AD and the presence in and around the Church of 12 stones with Celtic carvings, listed in Lang's Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture. The large granite block at the base of the south-west corner of the church is an inscribed Roman stone.
The village is mentioned twice in the Domesday Book as Chirchbi in the Hallikeld hundred. The lands were owned by Gospatric, son of Arnketil at the time of the Norman invasion. Afterwards the lands passed to the Crown, but he remained lord of the manor on behalf of the King. The manor passed at some point to the Mowbray family and thence part of it by sale, to the Prior of Newburgh Priory. After the dissolution, the manor was granted to Nevill's of Thornton Bridge. The Nevill's sold the manor to Sir Robert Long in 1672. Eventually the manor was sold in the 19th century to the Rawson family of Nidd Hall.
The army of Sir Andreas de Harcla mustered his forces near the village prior to the Battle of Boroughbridge in 1322.
There was a branch line of the North Eastern railway that ran through the parish. The line ran form Pilmoor Junction on the East Coast Main Line near Easingwold to Knaresborough via Boroughbridge. Opened in 1847, it closed in 1964.
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