KIRKBY-in-MALHAMDALE, a parish comprising
the township of Calton in the eastern division,
and the townships of Airton, Hanlith, Kirkby in Malham-
Dale, Malham, Malham-Moor, Otterburn, and Scosthorpe,
in the western division, of the wapentake of
STAINCLIFFE-AND-EWCROSS, West riding of the county
of YORK, and containing 1005 inhabitants, of which
number, 204 are in the township of Kirkby in Malham-
Dale, 5 miles (E. S. E.) from Settle. The living is a
vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of York,
rated in the king's hooks at £6. 13, 4., endowed with
£200 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and
£1200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the
Duke of Devonshire. A free grammar school was founded
here, in 1606, by John Topham, who endowed it with
certain lands which, with subsequent bequests, produce
an income of £21 a year, for which, and moderate
quarterages, from twenty to thirty children receive an
English education; but the classics are taught free to
those who apply.