Kirby Hill, Harrogate
Kirby-on-the-Moor, now known as Kirby Hill, is a village in the Kirby Hill civil parish about north of the market town of Boroughbridge, in North Yorkshire, England. Geography The village is on a section of the Great North Road that is now the B6265. It was part of the A1 until the section of the A1(M) west of the village was built. The village is above sea level. The A1(M) motorway passes approximately 500m west of the village. The 2001 Census recorded the population as 355, of whom 294 were more than 16 years old and 168 of these were in employment. There were 155 dwellings of which 105 were detached. The 2011 Census recorded the population as 391. Manor The Domesday Book of 1086 records Kirby as ''Chirchbi'' in the hundred of Hallikeld. Gospatric, son of Arnketil held the manor of Kirby at the time of the Norman conquest of England. Afterwards the manor was seized by the Crown, but Gospatric remained lord of the manor on behalf of the King. At some date the manor ...
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