North Yorkshire
Ryedale District
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Kirkham

Kirkham is a village in the civil parish of , in , England, close to , situated in the Howardian Hills alongside the River Derwent, and is notable for the nearby ruins of , an Augustinian establishment.
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: village in North Yorkshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Kirkham, North Yorkshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kirkham Priory and Kirkham Bridge.

Monastery
Photo: JohnArmagh, Public domain.
The ruins of are situated on the banks of the River Derwent, at Kirkham, , . The Augustinian priory was founded in the 1120s by Walter l'Espec, lord of nearby , who also built .

Bridge
Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Building
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
was a minor railway station serving the village of Kirkham in , England on the York to Scarborough Line and was opened on 5 July 1845 by the York and North Midland Railway.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Firby and Crambe.

Hamlet
Photo: Stephen Horncastle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in the civil parish of , in , England, 4 miles south west of . was historically a township in the parish of Westow in the .

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the county of , England. It is near the River Derwent and 6 miles south-west of . The population as of the 2011 census was less than 100.

Hamlet
Photo: Peter Church, CC BY-SA 2.0.
near and in is near the River Derwent.

Kirkham

Latitude
54.08354° or 54° 5′ 1″ north
Longitude
-0.87326° or 0° 52′ 24″ west
Elevation
128 feet (39 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB KIH
Open location code
9C6X34MG+CM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 55441680
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2645279
Wiki­data ID
Q11739473
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Swedish—“Kirkham” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “柯克姆”
  • Dutch: “Kirkham, North Yorkshire”
  • French: “Kirkham”
  • Irish: “Kirkham”
  • Polish: “Kirkham (North Yorkshire)”
  • Polish: “Kirkham”
  • Russian: “Киркхэм (Северный Йоркшир)”
  • Russian: “Киркхэм”
  • Swedish: “Kirkham, North Yorkshire”
  • Swedish: “Kirkham”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kirkham”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.