Kirby Underdale
| Kirby Underdale | |
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  Kirby Underdale Location within theEast Riding of Yorkshire | |
| Population | 125 (2011 census)[1] |
| OS grid reference | SE806585 |
| •London | 175 mi (282 km)S |
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| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | YORK |
| Postcode district | YO41 |
| Dialling code | 01759 |
| Police | Humberside |
| Fire | Humberside |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| UK Parliament | |
Kirby Underdaleis a village andcivil parishin theEast Riding of Yorkshire,England. It is situated approximately six miles (ten kilometres) north ofPocklingtontown centre and lies one mile (1.5 kilometres) north of the mainA166 roadfromYorktoDriffield.
The civil parish is formed by the village of Kirby Underdale and thehamletsofGarrowby,PainsthorpeandUncleby. According to the2011 UK Census,Kirby Underdale parish had a population of 125,[1]a decrease on the2001 UK Censusfigure of 129.[2]
The church, dedicated to All Saints, was designated a Grade Ilisted buildingin 1987 and is now recorded in theNational Heritage List for England,maintained byHistoric England.[3]
In Baines 1823History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York,Kirby Underdale village and parish was listed as "Kirby Guderdale", and was in theWapentakeofBuckrose.All Saints' Church and itsbeneficewas in the patronage ofKing George IV.Population at the time was 385, which included two farmers, one of whom was abutcher,ablacksmith,a grocer, and a carpenter. Included in the parish and its population was the hamlet of Garraby, one mile (1.5 km) south-west, with two farmers and Sir F. L. Wood.[4]
Sir Francis Lindley Wood of Garrowby Hall andHickleton Hallwaslord of the manorand owner of most parish land, and provided a schoolmaster to teach poor parish children at Uncleby, a further parish hamlet one mile (1.5 km) north of Kirby. One mile (1.5 km) farther to the north was the parish hamlet of Hanging Grimston, and one mile (1.5 km) southeast, that ofPainsthorpe,where Rear-Admiral Charles Richardson lived. The population by 1840 was 293, with parish occupations that included twenty-one farmers, twowheelwrights,two shopkeepers, a tailor, a woodman, and agamekeeper.Further residents were a schoolmaster and schoolmistress, a parish clerk, ayeoman,and the parishincumbentat therectory.[5]
In 1868 a tumulus on the Uncleby Wold revealed two barrows, one British (70 feet) and one Anglo-Saxon (94 feet) the former inside the latter. 70 Anglo-Saxon skeletons were found among numerous relics from the two cultures.[6][7]
References
[edit]- ^abUK Census(2011)."Local Area Report – Kirby Underdale Parish (1170211212)".Nomis.Office for National Statistics.Retrieved21 February2018.
- ^UK Census(2001)."Local Area Report – Kirby Underdale Parish (00FB083)".Nomis.Office for National Statistics.Retrieved1 March2020.
- ^Historic England."Church of All Saints (1083837)".National Heritage List for England.Retrieved11 August2013.
- ^Baines, Edward(1823).History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York.pp. 209, 361.
- ^White, William (1840).History, Gazetteer and Directory of the East and North Ridings of Yorkshire.p. 347.
- ^Mayhall.Annals of Yorkshire 1866-74.Marshall Simpkin and co. p. 185.
- ^GENUKI."Genuki: Kirby Underdale Parish information from Bulmers' 1892., Yorkshire (East Riding)".genuki.org.uk.Retrieved13 September2023.
- Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets.East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 7.
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Media related toKirby Underdaleat Wikimedia Commons- Kirby Underdalein theDomesday Book
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