Kirby Misperton

Kirby Misperton
Kirby Misperton
Kirby Misperton shown within North Yorkshire
Population 370 (2011)[1]
OS grid reference SE779794
Civil parish
  • Kirby Misperton
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town MALTON
Postcode district YO17 6
Dialling code 01653
Police North Yorkshire
Fire North Yorkshire
Ambulance Yorkshire
EU Parliament Yorkshire and the Humber
UK Parliament

Kirby Misperton is a small village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England.

Geography

It is about 4 miles south from Pickering by road and about 7½ miles north from Malton, just west of the A169 road.

Adjacent to the village lies one of the most popular amusement parks in England, Flamingo Land Theme Park and Zoo.[2] A gas field nearby, discovered in 1985, pipes gas to the Knapton Generating Station. The fields were bought by Kelt UK Ltd (owned by Kelt Energy plc and Edinburgh Oil & Gas plc) from Candecca Resources Ltd (owned by BP) in 1992.

History

St Laurence's Church

The place-name 'Kirby Misperton' conflates the names of two adjoining places. Kirby is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Chirchebi. This means 'church village' in Old Norse. Misperton is also first attested in the Domesday Book, where it appears as Mispeton. This may mean 'foggy hill' or 'dung hill' in Old English. The two names first appear together in early Yorkshire charters, as Mispertona Kirkeby circa 1090, and as Kircabimispertun in 1157.[3]

The parish church is dedicated to St Lawrence.

References

  1. "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  2. Wilson, Natalya (29 December 2010). "Kirby Misperton in the spotlight". Gazette & Herald. Archived from the original on 2 February 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
  3. Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.279.


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