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| | Kirkby Moorside Poor Law Union and Workhouse |
 | | The old Kirkby Moorside parish workhouse, and another in Helmsley, were retained for use by the new Union. |
 | | A new Kirkby Moorside Union workhouse was erected in 1850 at a cost of £1,350 to accommodate 70 inmates. |
 | | The building, at a site on Gillamoor road in Kirkby Moorside, was designed by John and William Atkinson who were also the architects of many other Yorkshire workhouses including those at Bedale, Beverley, Easingwold, Guisborough, Goole, Helmsley, Howden, Pateley Bridge, Pocklington, Skirlaugh, Wetherby and York. |
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