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Welcome to Kirkbymoorside - Gateway to the North Yorkshire Moors!

This is an ancient waymarker on the moors above Hutton-le-hole giving travellers the miles to go

 

Message from our Mayor

Councillor Martin Dickinson: 

A very warm welcome to this our new Official Town Council Website. We hope it provides a useful insight into some of the facilities and services that are on hand in Kirkbymoorside.

If you are a visitor and have not yet ventured off the A170 we do hope it will provide some incentive and encouragement to see at first hand the market town that we take such pride in. We believe our town to be quite a unique haven in an environment of increasing pressures and speed, and we look forward to sharing it with you.

Views overs Kirkbymoorside from the site of the Stuteville castle

The following pages will allow you to find all the information you need about the town's past and what developments are taking place today. This site is maintained by the Kirkbymoorside Town Council and any queries or requests regarding information held on the website should be directed to the Town Clerk by e-mail on town.clerk@kirkbymoorsidetowncouncil.gov.uk 


Our Town Today

Market Place KirkbymoorsideOne of the shop fronts in the Market Place, KirkbymoorsideKirkbymoorside, or Chirchebi as it was called in the Doomsday Book, this busy market town offers a wide range of facilities and services from guest houses and restaurants to family businesses and specialist commercial companies. The Wednesday market started in 1254 is still in business today with a variety of individual stalls lining the cobbled streets. Kirkbymoorside is full of history and the streets reflect the various phases of the town’s development. You will find the ancient coaching inns of the Black Swan with its carved porch and the 13th Century crook built George & Dragon Inn sat alongside the Art Deco Yorkshire Penny Bank building and the Georgian facades of the market place. A popular trading post for the coaching routes between York and Scarborough and across the moors, Kirkbymoorside once boasted a pub on every corner!

All Saints ChurchyardIt is the final resting place for one of history’s most infamous rogues George Villiers 2nd Duke of Buckingham. He was a favourite of Charles II and is described in history as a man with a passion for wine, women and intrigue! No stranger to political scandal, he was one of the CABAL Govt who exerted real influence over the policies made by the parliament and is said to have plotted with others in one of the rooms near to the Black Swan Inn.  His scandalous love life is also well recorded. He had many lovers and introduced King Charles to Nell Gwynne.

However, Kirkbymoorside is also within a key religious area. The beautiful and isolated dales and valleys are ideal for spirituality and religious communities and it is no surprise that within a few miles you can find St Gregory’s Minster at Kirkdale, St Cedd’s Monastery at Lastingham, as well as the well known Rievaulx, Byland and Ampleforth Abbeys. Within the town you will find a Methodist chapel, St Chad’s Catholic Church and All Saints Parish Church, as well as the Friends Meeting House which dates from 1690. 

 

For more on the history of Kirkbymoorside click here