84 ANCIENT HISTORY OF KIRKBT-MOORSIDE 



at Kirkdale. We learn from Domesday also that 

 before the Conquest, Orm was Lord of Kirkdale, 

 then called Chirchebi, or Kirkby, which includes 

 the idea of the existence of houses near it, and 

 that there was then, at least, a Village near the 

 Church. Orm had great possessions in this neigh- 

 bourhood, and in the vale of the Esk. The chief 

 property about Kirkhy-Moorside was his, he was 

 possesser of Danby, Lealholme, and other places in 

 that quarter He was of noble extraction, for his 

 i'ather Gamel, is ranked amongst the Northumbrian 

 nobles, and Onn himself is said to have married 

 Etheldrith the daughter ofAldred EarlofNorth- 

 umbria. Gamel possessed a part of Kiikby*Moor- 

 side, together with the lordship of Lastingham, 

 Spaunton, &c. This Gamel, whose estates lay conti- 

 guous to those of Orm, might be the same with Ga- 

 mel beam ; or Gamel the younger, who headed the 

 confederacy against Tosti, earl of Northumberland. 

 This was the state of this district at the time of the 

 Conquest; after which peiiod there was a great 

 change in property: the greater part of it was taken 

 from its owners, and given to the friends of the 

 Conqueror. 



There are here the vestiges of two baronial 

 residences ; one the remains of a Castle, on a hill to 

 the east of the town, which belonged to the Stute- 

 ville family, and the other on the west end of it, at 

 the north end of a street called Castle-gate ; which 

 was occasionally the residence of the Nevilles. The 

 gite of ihatMvhich belonged to the Stutevilles, bears 

 marks of strength : it is surrounded by a deep moat, 



