Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KIRKBY-MISPERTON

KIRKBY-MISPERTON, a township in Pickering district, and a parish partly also in Malton district, N. R. Yorkshire. The township lies 3¼ miles SSW of Pickering town and r. station. Acres, 1, 739. Real property, £3, 034. Pop., 215. Houses, 41.—The parish contains aldo the towns of Barughs-Ambo, Ryton, Little Habton, and Great Habton; the last of which has a post office under York. Acres, 7, 544. Real property, £9, 927. Pop., 1, 002. Houses, 191. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to R. Tindall, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value, £960.* Patron, Lord Feversham. The church is ancient but good, and has a tower. There are two chapels of ease, four Wesleyan chapels, a national school, and charities £25.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Malton RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Kirby Misperton

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