Kirkby Malzeard

Kirkby Malzeard
Kirkby Malzeard
 Kirkby Malzeard shown within North Yorkshire
OS grid referenceSE230743
DistrictHarrogate
Shire countyNorth Yorkshire
RegionYorkshire and the Humber
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town RIPON
Postcode district HG4
Police North Yorkshire
Fire North Yorkshire
Ambulance Yorkshire
EU Parliament Yorkshire and the Humber
UK ParliamentSkipton and Ripon
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Coordinates: 54°09′51″N 1°38′52″W / 54.16425°N 1.64789°W

Kirkby Malzeard /ˈkɜrbɪ ˈmælzərd/[1] is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. There has been a creamery in the village making Wensleydale cheese for almost 100 years, first owned by Mrs Mason, then Kit Calvert, of Hawes, subsequently the Milk Marketing Board and more recently it was acquired by the Wensleydale Creamery. [2]

History

The market cross at Kirkby Malzeard, the village was the site of a market for around 700 years

Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the village was mentioned in Domesday Book as Chirchebi (meaning "church village"). The suffix Malzeard (another place-name, meaning "bad clearing" in Norman French) was added by the early 12th century.[3] In medieval times the honour of Kirkby Malzeard included large areas to the west of the village in upper Nidderdale, and the parish came to include several townships:

The townships became separate civil parishes in the 19th century.[4]

The writer and historian William Grainge was born to a farming family in the village.[5]

References

  1. ↑ BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names (1983), Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-212976-7
  2. ↑ Wensleydale Creamery: History and Heritage
  3. ↑ Watts, Victor, ed. (2010), "Kirkby", The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Cambridge University Press
  4. ↑ Vision of Britain website
  5. ↑ North Yorkshire County Council website

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