Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Kirkby Moorside

Kirkby Moorside, market town, par., and township, with ry. sta. (Kirby Moorside), North-Riding Yorkshire, on river Dove, 6½ miles NW. of Pickering-- par., 13,527 ac., pop. 2575; township, 4506 ac., pop. 1843; P.O., T.O., called Kirby Moorside; 2 Banks. Market-day, Wcdnesday. The town is the centre of an agricultural district, and has mfrs. of agricultural implements, brewing, malting, rope-making, iron and brass founding, &c.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "market town, parish and township, with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Kirkby Moorside AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place names: KIRBY MOORSIDE     |     KIRKBY MOORSIDE
Place: Kirkby Moorside

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