Kirkham Priory
The ruins of Kirkham Priory are situated on the banks of the River Derwent, at Kirkham, North Yorkshire, England. The Augustinian priory was founded in the 1120s by Walter l'Espec, lord of nearby Helmsley, who also built Rievaulx Abbey.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Monastery
- Description: Grade I listed heritage site in Ryedale, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Kirkham Priory Augustinian monastery: monastic precinct, three fishponds, and precinct boundary”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Kirkham Bridge and Kirkham Abbey railway station.
Kirkham Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kirkham Bridge is situated 700 feet west of Kirkham Priory.
Kirkham Abbey railway station
Building
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kirkham Abbey railway station was a minor railway station serving the village of Kirkham in North Yorkshire, England on the York to Scarborough Line and was opened on 5 July 1845 by the York and North Midland Railway. Kirkham Abbey railway station is situated 860 feet west of Kirkham Priory.
St Michael’s Church, Crambe
Church
Photo: DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Michael's Church is the parish church of Crambe, North Yorkshire, a village in England. The earliest parts of the current church date from the late 11th century, and consist of part of the north and south walls of the nave, along with the chancel arch. St Michael’s Church, Crambe is situated 3,200 feet south of Kirkham Priory.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kirkham and Crambe.
Kirkham
Village
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Kirkham is a village in the civil parish of Westow, in North Yorkshire, England, close to Malton, situated in the Howardian Hills alongside the River Derwent, and is notable for the nearby ruins of Kirkham Priory, an Augustinian establishment.
Crambe
Village
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Crambe is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is near the River Derwent and 6 miles south-west of Malton. The population as of the 2011 census was less than 100.
Firby
Hamlet
Photo: Stephen Horncastle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Firby is a village in the civil parish of Westow, in North Yorkshire, England, 4 miles south west of Malton. Firby was historically a township in the parish of Westow in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Kirkham Priory
- Categories: priory, historic site, and religion
- Location: Westow, Ryedale District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.08279° or 54° 4′ 58″ northLongitude
-0.87687° or 0° 52′ 37″ westOpen location code
9C6X34MF+47OpenStreetMap ID
way 258797870OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monasteryWikidata ID
Q6415670
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Russian—“Kirkham Priory” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Kirkham”
- Chinese: “卻咸小修道院”
- Dutch: “Kirkham Priory”
- Indonesian: “Kirkham Priory”
- Russian: “Киркхэмский монастырь”
- Russian: “Киркхэмский приорат”
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Highlights include Abbey Hill Plantation and Oak Cliff Wood.
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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 Priory”. Photo: JohnArmagh, Public domain.