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The Butter Cross in the centre of Kirkby Malzeard, north west of Ripon, was the traditional venue for the village's famous Sword Dance, now rarely performed.

Chapels is a hamlet at the northern end of Kirkby.

Kirkby Lonsdale's famous Devil's Bridge over the River Lune traditionally gets its name because it was built by the Devil, who claimed the soul of the first being to cross it.

The village is on the Scandale Beck near Ravenstonedale on the northern flanks of the Howgill Fells, in an area rich in prehistory and mercifully bypassed by the A685 road to Kirkby Stephen

During the 18th century, the village was a halt for stage coaches travelling between Lancaster and Kirkby Lonsdale.

The newly-cut village green at South Kirkby, near Hemsworth, gives a neat, urban appearance to this former West Yorkshire mining village.

The tower of the parish church dominates this view of Beckside, a small hamlet on the slopes of the Furness Fells above the village of Kirkby-in-Furness on the Duddon Estuary.

The pretty little village of Barbon, near Kirkby Lonsdale, lies in the hills above the Lune Valley beneath Thorn Moor, on the minor road through Barbondale to Dent.

Cowan Bridge lies two miles from Kirkby Lonsdale.

We are in the centre of the linear village of Long Preston, which is bisected by the busy A65 Skipton to Kirkby Lonsdale road.

Another view of Kirkby's Market Place taken nearly 20 years after photograph No 59539, and showing few changes apart from the motor vehicles; these include the charabanc which plied between Lancaster

The road through Greenodd is part of the 1820 turnpike route from Lancaster to Kirkby Ireleth, so Greenodd was then a very busy place.

Kirkby Lonsdale's famous Devil's Bridge over the River Lune traditionally gets its name because it was built by the Devil, who claimed the soul of the first being to cross it.

'Kirkby', from which West Kirby derives its name, was established by a small group of Scandinavian settlers in the 10th century.

It is fortunate to be bypassed by the A685 road to Kirkby Stephen.

This is the scene looking back down Kirkby's Main Street towards the Royal Hotel, which can just be seen in the distance.

The church was built in the Gothic style in 1859-60 of Kirkby slate with red sandstone dressings.

The signs leave no doubt that in 1960 the inn was owned by Dutton's Brewery (of Blackburn), and that John Kirkby was the licensee.

It grew rapidly in the Victorian era, being on a strategic turnpike road from Kendal to Kirkby Stephen.

The sinking of the Fitzwilliam and the South Kirkby pits in the 1870s led to a huge rise in the population; the town was rebuilt with hundreds of back-to-back terraced houses.

The road through Greenodd is part of the 1820 turnpike route from Lancaster to Kirkby Ireleth, so in the coaching era Greenodd was a very busy place.

Begun by William, Lord Hastings in 1489, and never finished, Kirby Muxloe is an early example of the use of brick in castle building.

Enterprise House, on the left, almost doubled Kirby's shops when it opened.

Begun by William Lord Hastings in 1480, and never finished, Kirby Muxloe is an early example of the use of brick in castle building.