Kirkby Fleetham
Western end of Kirkby Fleetham
OS grid reference	SE286944
District	Hambleton
Shire county	North Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NORTHALLERTON
Postcode district	DL7
Police	North Yorkshire
Fire	North Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
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Kirkby Fleetham is a large village in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the A1 road. It is almost adjoined to two other villages, Great Fencote and Little Fencote; Great Langton is also in close vicinity. It has a population of 556.

There is a local Pub/Bed & Breakfast called The Black Horse and the village has a Shop/Post office.

The River Swale runs close to the village on the east side and the A1 motorway runs approx 1 mile (1.6 km) to the west of the village. The village also lies under the landing flight path of RAF Leeming.

The moated site in the parish at grid reference SE284942, south of the Three Tuns Inn, is a scheduled ancient monument.^[1] It is the site of moated manor house, built in about 1314, on the site of an earlier motte and bailey castle.

St Mary's parish church was built between the 12th and 15th centuries and was restored in 1871. It is a grade II* listed building and contains a monument by the sculptor John Flaxman to William Lawrence of Kirkby Flletham Hall in the form of the bust of a young man with his mourning wife Anne Sophie.

Kirkby Fleetham Hall is a grade II* listed 18th-century country house which stands a mile to the north of the village.

The property was bought in the 1720s by John Aislabie (1670–1742), MP for Ripon and Chancellor of the Exchequer, for his son William Aislabie, also MP for Ripon. The present house was built in the mid-1700s by William for his daughter, Ann Sophie, who had married William Lawrence. Subsequently, it was left (with property in Clint), by William's granddaughter, Miss Sophia Elizabeth Lawrence (1761–1845), to her second-cousin once-removed, Harry Edmund Waller III, JP, DL (1804–1869), thence to his son Edmund Waller VI (1828–1898), who sold it in 1889 to Edward Courage of the Courage brewing family.

Since then much of the estate has been sold off. The hall has gone through several disguises including hotel and "country retreat". It is currently privately owned with part let out as apartments.

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  Kirkby Fleetham Hall's saloon pre 1889. A portrait of Mrs. Edmund Waller (Lucy Georgiana Elwes, d.1878, an aunt of Henry John Elwes) is visible in the left corner.
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  Kirkby Fleetham Hall's saloon pre 1889. A portrait of Harry Edmund Waller III, JP, DL (1804–1869) is visible in the left corner.
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  Edmund Waller (1828–1898) of Farmington & Kirkby Fleetham, with second wife, daughter (only child, Rachel (1868–1954)) and a friend, 1889, the year he sold Kirkby Fleetham and moved to Farmington, and the year his daughter married Cecil Fane De Salis.
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  Kirkby Fleetham Hall, circa 1889, from an album made up by Rachel Waller (1868–1954).
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  Kirkby Fleetham, circa 1889, featuring its lawn, from an album made up by Rachel Waller (1868–1954), who grew up there.

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