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36-536: The Lion Inn is a public house at Blakey Ridge, near Kirkbymoorside , in North Yorkshire , England. The building was completed between 1553 and 1558 (dates vary), and has been used as an inn for four centuries, sitting adjacent to a road across the moors between Castleton and Hutton-le-Hole . During the ironstone industry boom in Rosedale, it catered mainly for those engaged in the mining industry. The inn

72-541: A combined average attendance of 60–80 in the early 2010s. The Catholic church of St. Chad is served by two Benedictine priests from nearby Ampleforth Abbey ; Kikbymoorside being in the Diocese of Middlesbrough . Although the church is not listed, it falls within the Kirkbymoorside conservation area at Piercy End. The foundation stone was laid in 1896, and the church built on land acquired from Lord Feversham;

108-555: A population of 3,040 in the 2011 census. Kirkbymoorside is noted as Chirchebi in the Domesday Book of 1086. It has served as a trading hub at least since 1254, when it became a market town. There are two ancient coaching inns extant, the Black Swan with its carved porch, and the cruck-framed George and Dragon , which originated in the 13th century. The Georgian façades point to later periods of commercial prosperity on

144-546: A rest stop when carrying coffins over the moors. In the 18th century, the Inn was known for the cockfighting on the moors behind the pub, and for being a trading point in corn and fish. Surplus corn from Danby , Commondale and the Fryups , was sold to the horse-breeders and stable owners of Ryedale. Later, many of those who were patrons at the pub worked in the coal-mining industry, with many pits still visible on Blakey Moor. Then in

180-603: Is known for being subjected to extremes of weather, like Tan Hill Inn , also in North Yorkshire. At 1,325 ft (404 m) above sea level, it is often referred to as the fourth highest pub in England, and the second highest in Yorkshire (after Tan Hill). The Lion Inn is at 1,325 ft (404 m) above sea level on Blakey Ridge (Blakey means Black ), on the road between Castleton and Hutton-le-Hole. The pub

216-577: Is known for being the fourth highest in England, and the second highest in Yorkshire, after the Tan Hill Inn, which like the Lion, used to serve miners. The pub lies on the watershed between several valleys ( Eskdale , Farndale , Rosedale , Westerdale ), and was located at the site of what is believed to be an ancient hostelry. It is believed that monks built the pub between 1553 and 1558, using it as

252-617: Is now run by the Friends of Kirkbymoorside CP School and the funds go towards that charity and to the Gillamoor CE (VC) Primary School PTA. The Anglican place of worship is All Saints' Parish Church, a Grade I listed building dating back to the 13th century, but extensively restored in the mid-19th century under the direction of Sir George Gilbert Scott . There are 187 parishioners on the church's electoral role, of whom 27 are non-resident. There are two services each Sunday, which had

288-633: Is served by the local newspapers: Kirkbymoorside has a primary school. The town is in the catchment area of the comprehensive secondary Ryedale School , which is located in Nawton , three miles (5 km) away, and has about 600 pupils. Kirkbymoorside hosts an annual 10 km road-running race on the Sunday prior to May Day Bank Holiday each year. The race was started in 2000 by Malcolm Hodgson, Dr Tim Hughes and Martin Lush to raise funds for local schools. It

324-585: Is the Bilsdale Hunt in Yorkshire, which the Duke founded in 1668. The building, Buckingham House, is located in the town centre. Manor Vale, a stretch of woodland managed by the town council, was part of a deer park and contains the Grade II remains of the manor. It contains areas of both acidic and alkaline soil. It is home to a rare beetle species, Oedemera virescens . In the 1600s and at least until

360-578: The Bilsdale transmitter, BBC Yorkshire and ITV Yorkshire can also be received from the Emley Moor TV transmitter. Local radio stations are BBC Radio York on 103.7 FM, Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire (formerly Minster FM ) on 104.7 FM, and Coast & County Radio on 97.4 FM, a community based radio station which broadcast from its studio in Scarborough . The town

396-535: The Corrèze region of France. No cruck frames are known to have been built in North America though there are rare examples of what may be an upper cruck or knee rafters. The oldest surviving crucks with dates confirmed by tree ring analysis date from around the middle of the 13th century. They may have declined due to providing an inconveniently shaped space in cases where an upper floor was used. During

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432-823: The Teesside Football League in 2005 and finished as runners up in Division One in the 2007–08 season. As a result it moved up in the 2008–09 season into the Wearside Football League , a Step7 League and part of the National Pyramid system, finishing mid-table and similarly in 2009–10. It took sixth place in the 2016–17 season. The club's reserve side plays in the Beckett Football League, which it won in 2010–2011. The football club shares facilities with

468-470: The medieval period for structures such as houses and large tithe barns , which were entirely timber-framed. They were also often used for the roofs of stone-walled buildings such as churches. However, these bent timbers were comparatively rare, as they were also in high demand for the shipbuilding industry. Where naturally curved timbers were convenient and available, carpenters continued to use them at much later dates. For instance, base crucks are found in

504-532: The 1700s, a number of Quakers resided in this area and in nearby Hutton-le-Hole . The Quaker Meeting Hall built in 1690 still stands, although it was significantly modified in 1790 and extended in about 1810. This property is a Grade II listed building . The Quaker evangelist John Richardson died in Hutton-le-Hole in 1753 and was buried at the Meeting Hall's burial site. An electoral ward in

540-411: The 1850s, the ironstone mining industry and its associated railway, brought an enhanced trade to the pub. In the 19th century, the pub was called The Black Lion Inn , or Blakey House . In December 2010, two customers and five staff were trapped in the pub for eight days during a period of heavy snowfall. Drifts of snow 20 ft (6.1 m) deep, were layered against the pub. In the 1970s and 1980s,

576-450: The 840 route from Pickering to York and Leeds via Malton, accessible by using the 128 from Kirkbymoorside. There are no connections at Pickering between the two bus routes. The 840 also calls at Kirby Misperton , the location of Flamingoland theme park and zoo, and at Malton bus and railway stations. Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC North East and Cumbria and ITV Tyne Tees . Television signals are received from

612-816: The Cricket Club, which as runner-up in the 1st Division moved to the Premier Division of the Scarborough Beckett League in the 2010s. The team is also a member of the Ryedale Beckett League and was playing in the top division. The town has a golf club with an 18-hole, par-69 course. Three-times Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher opened its new clubhouse in November 1998. Kirkbymoorside being on

648-693: The Lion Inn as a residency, inserting a small proviso in a 2001 recording contract that allowed them to play live there. In 2019, segments of the BBC series Top Gear were filmed on the Moors using the pub as a base. The Lion Inn is a waypoint on the Coast to Coast and the Lyke Wake Walk . The pub is also often used as a starting/finishing point for walkers on short ventures out on the moors. The road past

684-455: The Nevilles' manor. The old Market Hall was gutted by fire but rebuilt in 1872. By 1881 the population of the town was 2,337. There is some disagreement over the spelling of the village: the alternative is Kirbymoorside , which is how the railway companies spelt the name on the station, as how it is traditionally pronounced). Signposts read "Kirkbymoorside". "Kirk" means church and "-by" is

720-480: The Viking word for settlement, so that the name translates as "settlement with a church by the moorside", or as Ekwall argues, Moorside is "Moresheved" which means "top of the moor". A valley near the town is known as Kirkdale . George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham , died on 16 April 1687, in the house of a local tenant, from a chill caught whilst hunting nearby. England’s oldest fox hunt , still running today,

756-486: The architect was Bernard Smith. There is also a Methodist church in the town. Earlier there were also Independent and Primitive Methodist chapels. The Bethel Chapel was an independent chapel built in 1792. During the period 1861–1877 the minister was the former missionary John Abbs . The single-storey Quaker Meeting House in West End dates from 1691. Some 20–30 people were worshipping there on Sunday mornings in

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792-522: The coaching route between York and Scarborough . Some Ancient British , Viking and Anglo-Saxon remains have been found in the vicinity. The Norman baron Robert de Stuteville built a wooden moated castle on Vivers Hill. The estate passed to the Wake family in the 13th century, who brought prosperity to the town. However, it was badly hit by the Black Death of the mid-14th century, after which

828-692: The current revival of green-oak framing for new building work, which has occurred mainly since approximately 1980 in the UK, genuine cruck frames have quite often been included in traditionally carpentered structures. There are also some fine, historically authentic reconstructions. For instance, Tithe Barn, Pilton , Glastonbury , whose original roof was destroyed by lightning, has been carefully rebuilt in 2005 from curved oaks. The necessary trees were sought out, using special templates, in English woodlands. The apex of

864-712: The early 2010s. It belongs to the Pickering and Hull area meeting. Among those buried in the Quaker burial ground was the evangelist John Richardson (1667–1753), who left a lively account of his life as a preacher in Britain, Ireland and the American colonies. Kirkbymoorside is home to Kirkbymoorside Football Club, which has existed since about 1890. After many years in the Scarborough & District League, it moved to

900-748: The manor house Barlow Woodseats Hall features what is claimed to be the longest continuously roofed cruck barn in Derbyshire , and possibly even in the United Kingdom. An example of a Yorkshire cruck barn complete with a heather- thatched roof can be found in Appletreewick . The crucks or cruck "blades" are a single oak tree riven (split) in two to form an equally shaped A frame. Rare examples of cruck framing are found on continental Europe such as in Belgium, Flanders, Northern France and

936-427: The pub hosted various musical acts such as Chris Rea , Slade , Sandie Shaw , Gene Pitney , Neil Sedaka , Helen Shapiro and Sting . The jazz trio Back Door, formed and played a residency at the pub in the 1970s, with the landlord at the time (Brian Jones), even financing one of their albums. They returned to the pub in 2006 for a sell-out two nights re-union concert. The rock band, Mostly Autumn have also used

972-567: The pub was used in 2016 for the stage three event of the Tour de Yorkshire , known as Cote de Blakey Ridge. Kirkbymoorside Kirkbymoorside ( / ˌ k ɜːr b i ˈ m ʊər s aɪ d / ) is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire , England. It is 25 miles (40.2 km) north of York ; midway between Pickering and Helmsley , and on the edge of the North York Moors National Park . The parish had

1008-419: The roofs of the residential range of Staple Inn Buildings, Nos. 337 – 338, High Holborn , London. This is dated by documented records to 1586, with significant alterations in 1886 (under Alfred Waterhouse ) and further restorations in 1936, and 1954–55. Despite these changes Cecil Hewett, an authority on English Historic Carpentry, has stated that these 16th-century crucks are original. The large main barn of

1044-465: The same name exists. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 3,444. The town was home to one of the few remaining British producers of light aircraft, Slingsby Aviation . (The other is Britten-Norman on the Isle of Wight ). Many sub-sea vehicles and robots are manufactured at Forum Energy Technologies (formerly Perry Slingsby Systems) which is located on the same site, roughly 1 mile south of

1080-480: The southern edge of the North York Moors National Park , a wide range of other outdoor activities such as walking, cycling and climbing can be done in the area. Cruck The term crook or cruck comes from Middle English crok(e) , from Old Norse krāka , meaning "hook". This is also the origin of the word "crooked", meaning bent, twisted or deformed, and also the crook used by shepherds and symbolically by bishops . Crucks were chiefly used in

1116-594: The town centre. The town is home to Kirkbymoorside Town Brass Band, which has achieved success on a national level, most recently winning the North of England Brass Band First Section Championship in 2004, 2008 and 2015. As a result of their 2008 success, the band competed in the National Finals in Harrogate on 28 September 2008 and claimed 3rd place overall. The anarchist poet and art critic Herbert Read

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1152-608: The town via West End and Piercy End. The service operates at about hourly intervals on Mondays to Saturdays. In summer the service forms part of the Moorsbus network on Sundays and Public Holidays, when it extends westwards beyond Helmsley to Sutton Bank . Connections to York are by the Reliance Motor Services 31X service via Helmsley . There are 3 direct buses to and from Kirkbymoorside on Schooldays & 4 on Saturdays and School Holidays. Transdev operates

1188-462: The town. There were plans, since withdrawn, for a Tesco store to be built on the site of the old railway station, which caused some controversy. The station buildings were demolished in 2010 and the site is now occupied, in part, by new houses. The 128 bus route is run by Scarborough and District (part of the East Yorkshire bus company ) from Helmsley to Scarborough and passes through

1224-541: The wooden castle lay in ruins. Prosperity returned after 1408, when the Neville family took over, although little remains of the fortified manor they built to the north of the town. The Nevilles remained Catholic and took part in the Rising of the North of 1569. By 1660 there was a grammar school. (The building is now part of the library.) The great Toll Booth in the middle of the town was built about 1730 with stone taken from

1260-550: Was born in the hamlet of Muscoates , about four miles (6.4 km) south of Kirkbymoorside. The area surrounding the town provided some of the inspiration for his only completed novel, The Green Child . The town hosts the Ryedale Show , an annual agricultural show, and became one of three main locations where Daisybeck Studios filmed the Channel 5 series The Yorkshire Vet . Kirbymoorside [sic] railway station

1296-510: Was connected to the national railway network from 1875 until 1964 as part of the Gilling and Pickering line . The track was lifted by August 1965. The last passenger trains ran in the early 1950s, but a goods train ran from Malton via Gilling East until 1964. The rails between Kirkbymoorside and Pickering were lifted in the 1950s and the main A170 road runs over part of the track bed to the east of

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