THIRKLEBY, a parish in the wapentake of BIRDFORTH,
North riding of the county of YORK, 4 miles (S.
E. by E.) from Thirsk, containing 293 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of
Cleveland, and diocese of York, rated in the king's
books at £6, and in the patronage of the Archbishop
of York. The church, dedicated to All Saints, was
rebuilt, in 1722, by Sir Thomas Frankland, Bart.