KIRKBY-MALZEARD, a parish in the lower division
of the wapentake of CLARO, West riding of the
county of YORK, comprising the market-town of Kirkby-
Malzeard, the chapelries of Hartwith with Winsley,
and Middlesmoor, and the townships of Co/enley, Fountains
Earth, Gravelthorpe, Laverton, Down Stonebeck
and Upper Stonebeck, and containing 4263 inhabitants,
of which number, 682 are in the town of Kirkby-Malzeard,
6 miles (W. N. W.) from Ripon. The market is
on Wednesday; and fairs are held on Whit-Monday
and October 2nd; all which, after long disuse, have been
recently revived. The living is a vicarage, with that of
Masham, either in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean
and Chapter of York, or in that of the manor court of
Masham, being claimed by both, and the matter not determined;
it is in the patronage of the Master and
Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, The church -is
dedicated to St. Andrew. A school, in which fifteen
children are instructed and five clothed annually, is supported
by the proceeds of a rent-charge of £ 5, the
benefaction of Gilbert Horseman, in 1640, subsequently
augmented with the interest of £.100 given by Gregory
Elsley, in 1716.