Kirkby Malzeard
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Kirkby Malzeard (
History
Historically part of the
- Azerley
- Fountains Earth
- Grewelthorpe
- Hartwith cum Winsley (a detached part)
- Laverton
- Stonebeck Down
- Stonebeck Up
The townships became separate civil parishes in the 19th century.[5]
In mediaeval times there was a castle at Kirkby Malzeard, held by the
In 1307,
In 1866 a landowner named Joseph Helliwell demolished the Market Cross. There was an outcry, and after a year of litigation, Helliwell was compelled to remove a cottage and part of his house that were encroaching on the Market Place. A new Market Cross was erected by public subscription, inaugurated on 30 September 1868. Several newspapers and documents relating to the market place and the cross were placed in a sealed bottle when the foundations were laid.[6]
The writer and historian William Grainge was born to a farming family at Dishforth, and grew up at Castiles Farm, near Kirkby Malzeard. He attended Kirkby Malzeard village school, the only formal education that he received; he was otherwise self-educated.[7]
Amenities
The Highside Playing Fields, which provide facilities for several sports, were created in the 1970s. One of the benefactors was Bing Crosby, who came shooting in the area in 1975. He donated £1,250 towards the playing fields, and visited them during a cricket match in 1976.[8]
There is a convenience store and a butcher in Kirkby Malzeard, as well as one pub, the Queens Head. A second pub, The
Governance
An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches south to Sawley and has a total population taken at the 2011 census of 3,109.[11]
References
- Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
- ISBN 0-19-212976-7
- ^ "Wensleydale Creamery: History and Heritage". Archived from the original on 11 November 2009. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
- ^ Watts, Victor, ed. (2010), "Kirkby", The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Cambridge University Press
- ^ "Kirkby Malzeard CP/AP through time | Census tables with data for the Parish-level Unit". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
- ^ ISBN 9780521179850. say that this campaign was in 1174, and the Bishop elect of Lincoln was Geoffrey Plantagenet, illegitimate son of Henry II.
- ^ "Harrogate Field Naturalists' and Camera Club". Knaresborough Post. British Newspaper Archive. 7 December 1895. p. 5 col.6. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
- ^
Kirkwood, Paul (10 October 2007). "Straight Down the Middle". Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
- ^ Walker, Andy (8 July 2008). "Communities mourn loss of two village pubs". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
- ^ Historic England. "The Shoulder of Mutton (1315324)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
- Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 7 February 2020.