The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Kirby Moorside, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Maneshou

The Meaning of the Name

The name Kirby Moorside is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, a farmstead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a farmstead’.

Names of this type are a fingerprint of Scandinavian settlement: they cluster across the old Danelaw, where Norse-speaking settlers renamed or founded villages from the late 9th century onward.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Kirby Moorside.

Listed Buildings Near Kirby Moorside

Historic England records 46 listed buildings within about a mile of Kirby Moorside. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

The Georgian House and Attached Railings to Front - 0.01 km
18 and 20, West End - 0.01 km
8 West End - 0.06 km
Windmill at Rear of no 17 - 0.06 km
2, West End - 0.07 km
Numbers 11 and 13 (The Black Swan Inn) and 15 (Maws Stores) - 0.08 km
The George and Dragon Inn and Attached Railings to Front and the Yorkshire Bank - 0.08 km
3, West End - 0.08 km
K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside Post Office - 0.1 km
The White Horse Inn - 0.1 km
National Westminster Bank - 0.1 km
Garth End House Kirkby Klippers and Buckingham House and Attached Railings to Front and Side - 0.11 km
14, Market Place - 0.11 km
Kings Head Hotel - 0.12 km
Tolbooth - 0.12 km
No 5 and Attached Railings to Front - 0.13 km
No 12 With Attached Outbuilding to Rear - 0.13 km
Range of Market Stalls Attached to Rear of no 12 - 0.13 km
Tontine House and Carriage Arch to Right - 0.13 km
Number 8 and Attached Railings - 0.13 km
The White Swan Inn - 0.13 km
Market Cross Approximately 2 Metres South of no 12 - 0.13 km
11 Crown Square - 0.14 km
2, Howe End and 1, Piercy End - 0.15 km

…and 22 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Kirby Moorside

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Kirby Moorside:

Kirby Moorside Today

Today Kirby Moorside lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 3,110 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Kirkbymoorside on Wikipedia .