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Milby (#27 on map) is a hamlet and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated to the immediate north of Boroughbridge.
The nearest settlements are Boroughbridge 0.8 miles (1.3 km) to the south; Langthorpe 0.8 miles (1.3 km)to the south west; and Kirby Hill 0.9 miles (1.4 km) to the north west. The 2001 UK Census recorded the population as 162 in 62 dwellings.
The Roman road, Dere Street crossed the River Ure at Milby. Until the mid 19th century, the old wooden bridge remains could still be seen. The village lies on the north bank of the River Ure. In order to make the river navigable past the weir at Boroughbridge, a three-quarter mile cut was made from Milby, including a set of locks, to Langthorpe.
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A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Milby from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "Milby, township, partly in Kirby on the Moor par., North-Riding Yorkshire, partly in Aldborough par., West-Riding Yorkshire, near Boroughbridge, 758 ac., pop. 84."
Historically, Milby in Halikeld Wapentake. From 1894 until 1974, Milby was located in Thirsk Rural District. In 1974 the area became part of the Harrogate District of North Yorkshire.
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- GENUKI on Milby in Aldborough parish and GENUKI on Milby in Kirby Hill parish. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
- The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Aldborough provides a list of useful resources for the local area. One should also inspect resources listed under Kirby on the Hill.
- A Vision of Britain through Time on Milby.
- A Vision of Britain through Time also provides links to maps of the West Riding, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. Those listed here provide data for the part of the West Riding that transferred to North Yorkshire in 1974 plus the northern parts of Leeds and Bradford. These maps all blow up to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.
- Ordnance Survey West Riding 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts) for the whole of the West Riding.
- Ordnance Survey Northern part of the West Riding 1900 The rural and urban districts, not long after their introduction. (rural districts of Sedbergh, Settle, Skipton, Pateley Bridge, Ripon, Knaresborough, Great Ouseburn, Clitheroe, Wharfedale, Wetherby, York, Bishopthorpe, Keighley, the northern part of Bradford, the northern part of Leeds, the northern part of Hunslet Urban District, the northern part of Tadcaster Rural District, the northern part of Selby Rural District). [Note: this map appears to be no longer available on the Vision of Britain website. This is unfortunate because the equivalent map from 1931-44 was redrawn after the 1938 reorganization of the rural districts in the northern part of the West Riding.]
- Ordnance Survey Northern part of the West Riding 1944. The urban and rural districts of the northern part of the West Riding (mostly Settle, Skipton, Ripon and Pateley Bridge, and Nidderdale, with sections of Wharfedale and Wetherby) after the revisions of 1938.
- Ordnance Survey Southern part of the West Riding 1944 shows the southern part of the West Riding (including the southern part of Wetherby Rural District).
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