Kirby Sigston Manor and Lake (geograph 2028063)

Kirby Sigston is a village and

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in the Hambleton district of

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, England, approximately east of

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. The village is situated on the Cod Beck river, and the wider parish contains the hamlet of Jeater Houses due east of the village on the trunk

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. The village is mentioned in the

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of 1086 as having 75 ploughlands, and its name derives from a combination of the

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'' Kirkju-býr'' (a village with a church) and ''Sigges tūn'' (Sigge's farmstead or settlement). Sigston is also the name of a village nearby. During the 14th century the parish was part of a huge deer park and hunting area on the eastern side of what is now known as the

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. A

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(DMV) lies to the south of the church. The population taken at the 2011 Census was fewer than 100, so details are included in the civil parish of

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estimated the population of the village in 2015 to be 100 people, an increase of ten since the 2011 census. The village has never had a shop, post office or pub, and its school, which opened in 1846 and would have taken around 35 pupils, closed down in 1944. Sigston Castle - geograph

To the north is the site of Sigston Castle, a fourteenth-century quadrangular castle, surrounded by a now largely dry moat. South of Sigston Castle, near the

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, is St Lawrence's church. The church is largely Norman but the tower was renovated in the 18th century. The

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church is decorated with carvings of dragons, which

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states shows the Danish influence in the area. Kirby Sigston is referred to in

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' song "Going to Kirby Sigston".

Notable residents

The

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, and Conservative MP for Richmond (Yorks),

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, currently lives in Kirby Sigston as his constituency home.

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* {{authority control Villages in North Yorkshire Civil parishes in North Yorkshire