Kirkby (historically known as Kirkby-in-Cleveland) is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of Parish (administrative division), administrative parish used for Local government in England, local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below district ...

in Hambleton district of

North Yorkshire North Yorkshire is the largest ceremonial county (lieutenancy area) in England, covering an area of . Around 40% of the county is covered by national parks, including most of the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors. It is one of four cou ...

, England, near Great Busby and south of

Stokesley Stokesley is a market town and civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England, formerly a part of the historic North Riding of Yorkshire. It lies on the River Leven. An electoral ward, of the same name, stretches north to ...

. The village is mentioned in the

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as belonging to ''Uhtred''. The name of the village derives from the

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''kirkju-býr'', which means church with a village. At the 2001 Census, the population of the village was recorded at 313, dropping slightly to 309 at the 2011 Census. In 2015,

North Yorkshire County Council North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) is the county council governing the non-metropolitan county of North Yorkshire; an area composing most of North Yorkshire in England. The council currently consists of 90 councillors. The council is current ...

estimated the population to be 310. The village used to be served by Stokesley railway station on the Picton to Battersby railway line, which was north of the village. The A172 road is to the north and the B1257 Stokesley to

Helmsley Helmsley is a market town and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, the town is located at the point where Ryedale leaves the moorland and joins the flat Vale o ...

road is in the village of Great Broughton, to the east. The parish church of St Augustine was built in 1815 to replace a

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building. The chancel was rebuilt in the early 1900s by London architect

Temple Moore Temple Lushington Moore (7 June 1856 – 30 June 1920) was an English architect who practised in London. He is famed for a series of fine Gothic Revival churches built between about 1890 and 1917 and also restored many churches and designed c ...

. It is a grade II* listed building. Besides the church, Kirkby also has a village hall and a public house, the Black Swan. To the south of the village is Kirby Bank (without a second 'K'). Part of the pathway there is a Medieval greenway known as the ''Kirby Bank Trod'', which is believed to have been laid in the 12th century as part of the route to

Rievaulx Abbey Rievaulx Abbey was a Cistercian abbey in Rievaulx, near Helmsley, in the North York Moors National Park, North Yorkshire, England. It was one of the great abbeys in England until it was seized in 1538 under Henry VIII during the Dissolutio ...

. The track is a scheduled ancient monument.

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