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KIRKBURN:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.

"KIRKBURN, a parish in the Bainton-Beacon division of the wapentake of HARTHILL, East riding of the county of YORK, comprising the townships of East Burn, Kirk-Burn, South Burn, and Tibthorp, and containing 455 inhabitants, of which number, 119 are in the township of Kirk-Burn, 4 miles W.S.W. from Great Driffield. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of the East riding, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £4. 10. 2., endowed with £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Mary."

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"EASTBURN, a township in the parish of KIRKBURN, Bainton-Beacon division of the wapentake of HARTHILL, East riding of the county of YORK, 3 miles S.W. from Great Driffield, containing 12 inhabitants."

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"SOUTHBURN, a township in the parish of KIRKBURN, Bainton-Beacon division of the wapentake of HARTHILL, East riding of the county of YORK, 3 miles S.W. from Great Driffield, containing 103 inhabitants."

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"TIBTHORP, a township in the parish of KIRKBURN, Bainton-Beacon division of the wapentake of HARTHILL, East riding of the county of YORK, 5 miles W.S.W. from Great Driffield,'containing 221 inhabitants. There is a place of worship forWesleyah Methodists."

[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1835]