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Kirk Deighton

Kirk Deighton
Main Street, Kirk Deighton.jpg
Main street, Kirk Deighton
Kirk Deighton is located in North Yorkshire
Kirk Deighton
Kirk Deighton
Kirk Deighton shown within North Yorkshire
Population 484 
OS grid reference SE398503
Civil parish
  • Kirk Deighton
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town WETHERBY
Postcode district LS22
Police North Yorkshire
Fire North Yorkshire
Ambulance Yorkshire
EU Parliament Yorkshire and the Humber
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Yorkshire
53°56′52″N 1°23′38″W / 53.94783°N 1.39390°W / 53.94783; -1.39390Coordinates: 53°56′52″N 1°23′38″W / 53.94783°N 1.39390°W / 53.94783; -1.39390

Kirk Deighton is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated north-west of Wetherby, to which it is contiguous, and near the A1(M). The village was in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and Wetherby Rural District, until 1974, and is now on the border between West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire: the village is in North Yorkshire, and Wetherby in the Leeds metropolitan district of West Yorkshire. Kirk Deighton has a population of less than 500 people, measured at 484 in the 2011 Census.All Saints' Church was mentioned in the Domesday Book.

Within the village is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) that is home to a population of Great Crested Newts (Triturus cristatus).

The village has a church, a public house, an antiques dealer, a football club and club house, a cricket club that plays in the 1st division of the Wetherby League and a village hall. Kirk Deighton amenities serve residents of the Ainsty and Badgerwood areas of north-east Wetherby.

The Bay Horse public house in the centre of the village was originally two, the Bay Horse and The Grey Hound until they were converted into one pub, taking the Bay Horse name. Until the early 1990s the Alpine Lodge was a Samuel Smith's house on the Great North Road (A1). It opened as the Old Fox Inn but was renamed the Alpine Inn. After it closed and an arson attack in the 2000s, the building was demolished.


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