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Kirkburn is a small village and
civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
in the
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, England. It is situated about south-west of
Driffield Driffield, also known as Great Driffield (neighbouring Little Driffield), is a market town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The civil parish is formed by the town of Driffield and the village of Little Driffield. By ...
town centre and is on the
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. The civil parish is formed by the village of Kirkburn and the
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s of Eastburn,
Kelleythorpe Kelleythorpe is a Hamlet (place), hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, it forms part of the civil parishes in England, civil parish of Kirkburn. It is situated in the Yorkshire Wolds on the A614 road near to its junction with the A1 ...
and Southburn. According to the
2011 UK census A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years. The 2011 census was held in all countries of the UK on 27 March 2011. It was the first UK census which could be completed online via the Internet. The Office for National ...
, Kirkburn parish had a population of 903, an increase on the
2001 UK census A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK census and recorded a resident population of 58,789,194. The 2001 UK census was organised by the Office for National ...
figure of 492.


History

The village was originally known as ''Westburn'' at the time of the ''
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'' and the name was changed to Kirkburn after the building of St Mary's Church in the village between 1130 and 1155. "Kirk" means "church". The church was
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in the 19th century by
John Loughborough Pearson John Loughborough Pearson (5 July 1817 – 11 December 1897) was a British Gothic Revival architect renowned for his work on churches and cathedrals. Pearson revived and practised largely the art of vaulting, and acquired in it a proficie ...
and
George Edmund Street George Edmund Street (20 June 1824 – 18 December 1881), also known as G. E. Street, was an English architect, born at Woodford in Essex. Stylistically, Street was a leading practitioner of the Victorian Gothic Revival. Though mainly an eccl ...
. In 1966 the church was designated a Grade I
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and it is now recorded in the
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and maintained by
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. It is on the
Sykes Churches Trail The Sykes Churches Trail is a tour of East Yorkshire churches which were built, rebuilt or Victorian restoration, restored by the Sykes family of Sledmere, Sykes family of Sledmere House in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The tour was devi ...
devised by the East Yorkshire Churches Group. An important archaeological relic was found in 1987 during the excavation of a nearby Iron Age grave and dated to the 3rd century BC. The ''Kirkburn Sword'', as it became known, is described by the
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as "probably the finest Iron Age sword in Europe". Its handle is made up of 37 pieces of iron, bronze and horn and decorated with red glass. Its
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is made of iron and polished bronze, decorated with a scroll pattern in La Tène style, with red glass studs and insets. Also in the British Museum are Celtic Iron Age finds from a
chariot burial Chariot burials are tombs in which the deceased was buried together with their chariot, usually including their horses and other possessions. An instance of a person being buried with their horse (without the chariot) is called horse burial. Fi ...
discovered only away from the man who was buried with the Kirkburn
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. They include an ornately decorated pair of
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s from the
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. From 1890 until 1954 Kirkburn was served by Southburn railway station on the
Selby to Driffield Line Selby is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, south of York on the River Ouse. At the 2021 Census, it had a population of 17,193. The town was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire; from 1974 until 2023, ...
.


See also

* Kirkburn Burial


References

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External links

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The British Museum describes the Kirkburn SwordChurchatKirkburn.org.uk - History and other matters relating to St. Mary's church in Kirkburn
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.org.uk. Retrieved 16 April 2012 * {{authority control Villages in the East Riding of Yorkshire Civil parishes in the East Riding of Yorkshire