THE 



HISTORY 2ND ANTIQUITIES 



OF 



THIS TOWN is situate in the Wapentake of llydale, 

 28 miles from York, 20 from Thirsk, 20 from 

 Stokesley, 23 from Guisborough, 28 from Whitby, 

 26 from Scarborough, 14 from Malton, G from 

 Helmsley, and 8 from Pickering ; having in its 

 parish the townships of GillamoorandFadmoor.t 



Kirkby- Moors ide, is not a place which affords 

 much scope for the Historian, not having been in 

 ancient times, in a situation to check the hostile 

 progress of enemies ; nor a place where any known 

 decisive battle was fought, which determined the 

 fate of a kingdom;}: nor has it given birth to any 



* It was anciently called Kirkby-Moorsheved : or 

 Kirkby at the head of the Moor ; after that Kirkby- 

 Moorside ; or Church town Moorside. 



f Fad-Moor, so called, either from the Gothic word 

 Fad, want; or the Saxon Fegd, war, and Moor. 



J Though nothing particular is recorded of battle* 

 having been fought here, yet from circumstantial evidence 

 and tradition, it appears, that the immediate vicinity of 

 the town has been the scene of these destructive conflicts. 

 In a gill, at a place called the back of the Parks, near 

 Yoadvvath Mill } human bones were found; in a fissure of 



