Kirby Wiske is an English village and

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in the

Hambleton District Hambleton is a local government district in North Yorkshire, England. The administrative centre is Northallerton, and the district includes the outlying towns and villages of Bedale, Thirsk, Great Ayton, Stokesley, and Easingwold. The ...

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. It lies beside the

River Wiske The River Wiske is a tributary of the River Swale in Yorkshire, England. The Wiske gives its name to several villages it passes through. The name Wiske is derived from an Old English word ''wisca'' meaning a water meadow. It was once known as t ...

, about north-west of

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History

The village appears in the 1086 ''

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'' as Kirkebi in the Allerton

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. After the Norman invasion, Domesday states, the manor passed from

Edwin, Earl of Mercia Edwin (Old English: ''Ēadwine'') (died 1071) was the elder brother of Morcar, Earl of Northumbria, son of Ælfgār, Earl of Mercia and grandson of Leofric, Earl of Mercia. He succeeded to his father's title and responsibilities on Ælfgār's de ...

, to the Crown of England.

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stayed with Thomas Lascelles of Brackenburgh on 10 June 1603, while on her way to London from Edinburgh, and travelled on to York.

Governance

The village shares a parish council with Newsham with Breckenbrough. It lies within the Thirsk and Malton UK Parliament constituency, the

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ward of Hambleton District Council and Sowerby electoral division of North Yorkshire County Council.

Geography

The nearest settlements are

Maunby Maunby is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England, about six miles south of Northallerton and on the River Swale The River Swale in Yorkshire, England, is a major tributary of the River Ure, whi ...

to the north-west;

South Otterington South Otterington is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the A167 road south of Northallerton and on the east bank of the River Wiske. History ''Otterinctune'' in the ''Allerto ...

to the north;

Thornton-le-Street Thornton-le-Street is a village and parochial and civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. It is part of the civil parish of Thornton-le-Moor and Thornton-le-Street for District purposes. As the population remained le ...

to the north-east and Sandhutton to the south. Maunby stands on the west bank of the

, which joins the

River Swale The River Swale in Yorkshire, England, is a major tributary of the River Ure, which becomes the River Ouse, that empties into the North Sea via the Humber Estuary. The river gives its name to Swaledale, the valley through which it flows. ...

to the south of the village. It is close to the

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. The 1881 UK Census recorded a population of 223. The population of Kirkby Wiske in 2001 was 105 – 45 male, 60 female, 90 of them over the age of 16, of whom 61 were in employment. There were 48 dwellings, 29 of them detached. The population at the census of 2011 had risen to 131.

Religion

There is an Anglican parish church in the village, dedicated to St John the Baptist. The church is a Grade II*

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, originally built in the 12th century on the site of an earlier Saxon church. Restoration and rebuilding of the present church took place in the 14th, 15th and 19th centuries. The congregation today forms part of a joint parish of Lower Swale, along with seven other parishes. There is a service at Kirby Wiske church about once a month. There was a Wesleyan Methodist chapel built in the village in 1825, but the building is no longer used as such. Nor are the premises of a Church of England school that opened in 1870.

Listed buildings

In all there are eleven Grade II Listed Buildings in the area, including the bridge over the river. One of them, Sion Hill Hall, now houses the Birds of Prey and Conservation Centre, which keeps over 70 birds of prey and is run by Falconry UK Ltd.

Notable residents

Roger Ascham Roger Ascham (; c. 151530 December 1568)"Ascham, Roger" in ''The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 617. was an English scholar and didactic writer, famous for his prose style, h ...

, born in Kirby Wiske in 1514 or 1515, was a scholar, educationalist and promoter of archery, who was Princess Elizabeth's tutor in Greek and Latin in 1548–1550 and served under the administrations of

Edward VI Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death in 1553. He was crowned on 20 February 1547 at the age of nine. Edward was the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour and the first E ...

Mary I Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain from January 1556 until her death in 1558. She ...

and Elizabeth I. * Anthony Ascham or Askham, astronomer, astrologer, and brother of Roger, was born at Kirby Wiske in about 1517. *

William Palliser Sir William Palliser CB MP (18 June 1830 – 4 February 1882) was an Irish-born politician and inventor, Member of Parliament for Taunton from 1880 until his death. Early life Born in Dublin on 18 June 1830, Palliser was the fourth of the eight ...

(1644–1726) was baptised in Kirby Wiske. He later became

Archbishop of Cashel The Archbishop of Cashel ( ga, Ard-Easpag Chaiseal Mumhan) was an archiepiscopal title which took its name after the town of Cashel, County Tipperary in Ireland. Following the Reformation, there had been parallel apostolic successions to the titl ...

in the

Church of Ireland The Church of Ireland ( ga, Eaglais na hÉireann, ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Kirk o Airlann, ) is a Christian church in Ireland and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion. It is organised on an all-Ireland basis and is the secon ...

. * Christopher Bethell (1773–1859), Rector of Kirby Wiske in 1808–1830, became

Bishop of Bangor The Bishop of Bangor is the ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of Bangor. The see is based in the city of Bangor where the bishop's seat (''cathedra'') is at Cathedral Church of Saint Deiniol. The ''Report of the Commissioners appointed ...

, despite knowing no Welsh. His writings on religious matters include ''A General View of the Doctrine of Regeneration in Baptism'' (1821).

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