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Kirkburn is a small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated about south-west of Driffield town centre and is on the A614 road.
The civil parish is formed by the village of Kirkburn and the hamlets of Eastburn, Kelleythorpe and
The village was originally known as ''Westburn'' at the time of the '' Domesday Book'' and the name was changed to Kirkburn after the building of St Mary's Church in the village between 1130 and 1155. "Kirk" means "church". The church was 
An important archaeological relic was found in 1987 during the excavation of a nearby Iron Age grave and dated to the 3rd century BC. The ''Kirkburn Sword'', as it became known, is described by the British Museum as "probably the finest Iron Age sword in Europe". Its handle is made up of 37 pieces of iron, bronze and horn and decorated with red glass. Its scabbard is made of iron and polished bronze, decorated with a scroll pattern in La Tène style, with red glass studs and insets. Also in the British Museum are Celtic Iron Age finds from a
The British Museum describes the Kirkburn SwordChurchatKirkburn.org.uk - History and other matters relating to St. Mary's church in Kirkburn
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Southburn
Southburn is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Kirkburn, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated in the Yorkshire Wolds just south of the A164 road, approximately south-west of Driffield and north-west of ...
.
According to the 2011 UK census
A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years. The 2011 census was held in all countries of the UK on 27 March 2011. It was the first UK census which could be completed online via the Internet. The Office for National ...
, Kirkburn parish had a population of 903, an increase on the 2001 UK census
A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK census and recorded a resident population of 58,789,194.
The 2001 UK census was organised by the Office for National ...
figure of 492.
History
The village was originally known as ''Westburn'' at the time of the '' Domesday Book'' and the name was changed to Kirkburn after the building of St Mary's Church in the village between 1130 and 1155. "Kirk" means "church". The church was restored
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in the 19th century by John Loughborough Pearson and George Edmund Street
George Edmund Street (20 June 1824 – 18 December 1881), also known as G. E. Street, was an English architect, born at Woodford in Essex. Stylistically, Street was a leading practitioner of the Victorian Gothic Revival. Though mainly an eccle ...
. In 1966 the church was designated a Grade I listed building and it is now recorded in the National Heritage List for England and maintained by Historic England.
It is on the Sykes Churches Trail
The Sykes Churches Trail is a tour of East Yorkshire churches which were built, rebuilt or restored by the Sykes family of Sledmere House in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The tour was devised by the East Yorkshire Historic Churches Group ...
devised by the East Yorkshire Churches Group.
An important archaeological relic was found in 1987 during the excavation of a nearby Iron Age grave and dated to the 3rd century BC. The ''Kirkburn Sword'', as it became known, is described by the British Museum as "probably the finest Iron Age sword in Europe". Its handle is made up of 37 pieces of iron, bronze and horn and decorated with red glass. Its scabbard is made of iron and polished bronze, decorated with a scroll pattern in La Tène style, with red glass studs and insets. Also in the British Museum are Celtic Iron Age finds from a chariot burial
Chariot burials are tombs in which the deceased was buried together with their chariot, usually including their horses and other possessions. An instance of a person being buried with their horse (without the chariot) is called horse burial.
Fin ...
discovered only away from the man who was buried with the Kirkburn sword
A sword is an edged, bladed weapon intended for manual cutting or thrusting. Its blade, longer than a knife or dagger, is attached to a hilt and can be straight or curved. A thrusting sword tends to have a straighter blade with a pointed ti ...
. They include an ornately decorated pair of linchpins from the axle
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.
From 1890 until 1954 Kirkburn was served by Southburn railway station
Southburn railway station was a railway station on the Selby to Driffield Line. It opened on 1 May 1890 and served the villages of Southburn and Kirkburn in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England
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on the Selby to Driffield Line
Selby is a market town and civil parish in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England, south of York on the River Ouse, with a population at the 2011 census of 14,731.
The town was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until ...
.
See also
* Kirkburn BurialReferences
*External links
*The British Museum describes the Kirkburn Sword
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