Kirklington is a village in the English county of North Yorkshire.
Administratively Kirklington forms part of the civil parish of Kirklington cum Upsland which is in the district of Hambleton.
Kirklington is village centred around its village green. The church of St Michael is medieval and contains banners and armour of the Wandesford family who still own the Hall. Kirklington is noted in the Domesday Book alongside Yarnwick, a lost village whose remains lie to the north of the village, between the Hall and Camp Hill prehistoric site. Evidence of Roman occupation has been found but is meagre, in the form of a white-ware burial at the 'lady well' behind the Hall.
A school house, now converted to housing, served the village until surprisingly recently. A neolithic burial mound known variously as 'Stapler's Mound' or 'Stapley Mound' lies between the village and the A1. Also close to the village on the A1, at Healam Bridge lie buried the remains of a Roman Dere Street fort, almost entirely ploughed away. Many of the village's houses are still owned by the estate.
There are three known ghost stories about the village, one in the pub, one in the Hall and one around Stapley Lane.
Just beyond the village to the north lies 'Camp Hill', the remains of an iron age camp. The large house named for the hill now runs corporate events and activities including motor sports and the locally well-known Aerial Extreme.
The public house in the village is the Black Horse, which is open Tuesday to Friday evenings and from noon at weekends. Quiz nights are held over autumn and winter and the pool team plays every Wednesday.
On the edge of the village is a cricket pitch used by the village team.