 Included in the parish and its population was the hamlet of Garraby, 1 mile to the south-west, with two farmers and Sir F. L. Wood.Sir Francis Lindley Wood of Garrowby Hall and Hickleton Hall was lord of the manor and owner of most parish land, and provided a schoolmaster to teach poor parish children at Uncleby, a further parish hamlet 1 mile to the north of Kirby.One mile farther to the north was the parish hamlet of Hanging Grimston, and 1 mile to the south-east, that of Painsthorpe, where lived Rear-Admiral Charles Richardson.