Kearby with Netherby

{{Short description|Civil parish in North Yorkshire, England}}

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| official_name= Kearby with Netherby

| civil_parish = Kearby with Netherby

| country= England

| region= Yorkshire and the Humber

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| unitary_england= North Yorkshire

| lieutenancy_england= North Yorkshire

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| population =204

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Kearby with Netherby is a civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The parish includes the hamlets of Barrowby, Netherby and Kearby Town End. The parish had a population of 204 in the 2011 census.[http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11125070&c=Kearby+with+Netherby&d=16&e=62&g=6454698&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1396992528577&enc=1 Neighbourhood Statistics, 2011 census]

Kearby with Netherby was historically a township in the parish of Kirkby Overblow in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It became a separate civil parish in 1866.{{cite web |url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10437635/relationships |title=Kearby With Netherby CP/Tn through time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |work=visionofbritain.org.uk}} It was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire in 1974. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Borough of Harrogate, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

Kearby was mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086, as Cherebi. The name probably derives from Kærer, an Old Danish personal name.{{cite book|last=Smith|first=A. H.|authorlink=Albert Hugh Smith|title=The Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire|volume=5|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1961|page=40}} Barrowby is also mentioned, as Berghebi. Its name meaning farmstead on the hill.{{cite web|title=Barrowby Grange :: Survey of English Place-Names |url=https://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/West+Riding+of+Yorkshire/Kirkby+Overblow/532881f9b47fc40c81003ea1-Barrowby+Grange |website=epns.nottingham.ac.uk |publisher=English Place-name Society}}

Around 1162, William de Percy II, the son of Alan de Percy, feudal baron of Topcliffe confirmed the grants of land belonging to several tenants in Barrowby to the Cistercian monks who had founded Sawley Abbey. The monks developed a grange here and continued to expand their landholding in the local area.{{citation |last=McNulty |first=Joseph |title=The Chartulary of the Cistercian Abbey of St Mary of Sallay in Craven |url=https://archive.org/details/YASRS090/page/26/mode/2up? |volume=2 |date=1934 |publisher=Yorkshire Archaeological Society |pages=24–60}}