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	Ryedale
Shire county	North Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
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	Thirsk and Malton

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

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

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