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contains about thirty different rooms, variously oc- 

 cupied. 



Here is also a School, built by subscription, in the 

 year 1796. 



There is no regular Bank in the town ; but Bank* 

 ing Business is transacted by John Watson, Esq., 

 under the sanction of Messrs, Wentworth, and Co., 

 York. 



There were formerly two ponds above Kirkby- 

 Moorside, one on the north of the site of Stuteville 

 castle, and the other on the south of it, which sup- 

 plied the town with water. These ponds were call- 

 ed bibbers, or, drinkers, in consequence of the water 

 being collected into them by drains, &c., from the 

 surface of the marly land near them ; and the word 

 bibbers was changed in pronunciation, into vivers : 

 hence the hills on the N. and N. E. of Kirkby-Moor- 

 side, are called vivers-hills. The use of these ponds 

 or bibbers was at length superseded, by the town 

 being supplied with water in another manner. The 

 villages -and hamlets in the vicinity of Kirkby-Moor- 

 side and Helmsley, are supplied with soft water, 

 by several artificial rills, or small streams, from the 

 moors on the north of them. That of Kirkby- 

 Moorside, which was the first, and is the largest, 

 was brought to Gillamoor and Fadmoor, about the 

 year 1747, and about ten years after was cut afresh 

 and extended to this place. This rill is nearly ten 

 miles in length, and the first cost was noc quite 

 jglOO. In the act of parliament for inclosing the 

 commons and common fields, passed in 1788, a 

 clause was inserted for the future protection of 



