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The Lost Pubs of Boroughbridge / Kirby Hill

Wellesley Arms

On our starting list, but not yet found in any source we have checked.

Not yet confirmedas of 2026-10-28

What the record says

  • …Not yet found. We have found no record of a Wellesley Arms at Kirby Hill so far. It does not appear in Baines's 1823 directory, the town council's history or memories, or CAMRA's listings.[21][2][12]
  • ✓Kirby Hill in 1823. The inns recorded at Kirby Hill in 1823 were the White Horse (Matthew Hanby, victualler) and the Blue Bell (Grace Pickering, common brewer, maltster and victualler).[21]

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Still to find

  • Any documentary evidence that it existed
  • If it did: location, dates, and any later name

Particulars

Address
Kirby Hill (reported), Kirby Hill
Historic parish
Kirby Hill (Kirkby-on-the-Moor)[28][27]
Riding
North Riding
Kind of house
Inn
Earliest mention
Not yet found
Opened
Not documented
Closed
Not documented
Building today
Not known

Where

Not on the map yetNobody has documented exactly where it stood. If you know, please tell us.

Sources

  1. Baines's Directory 1823: Kirby Hill parish (Kirby Hill and Langthorpe), transcription, GENUKI
  2. Memories and collected information by Mr Bernard Porter (Feb 2010, compiled by Mike Jones), Boroughbridge Town Council memories archive
  3. Pubs in Boroughbridge, CAMRA WhatPub
  4. Parishes: Kirkby Hill or Kirkby on the Moor (Victoria County History, North Riding), British History Online
  5. Kirby-on-the-Moor, Wikipedia

Numbers in the text refer to the archive's full source list. Know better? Send a correction.