Welburn, Kirkbymoorside
| Welburn | |
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Welburn Hall School | |
Welburn Location within North Yorkshire | |
| Population | 80 (2021 census) |
| OS grid reference | SE 681 844 |
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| Unitary authority | |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | York |
| Postcode district | YO62 |
| Police | North Yorkshire |
| Fire | North Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| UK Parliament | |
Welburn is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, in England, 2 miles south-west of Kirkbymoorside and about 24 miles from York. In 2021 the population of the civil parish was 80. The population of the parish was estimated at 60 in 2012.
The civil parish includes the lower part of Kirkdale, including Kirkdale Cave and the parish church of St Gregory's Minster, both about 0.6 miles (1 km) north of the village. The Slingsby Aviation works and airstrip lie south-east of the village.
Welburn was historically a township in the parish of Kirkdale and became a civil parish in 1866. In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Welburn like this:
- "WELBURN, a township in Kirkdale parish, N. R. Yorkshire; 5 miles E of Helmsley. Acres, 1,582. Real property, £2,846. Pop., 121. Houses, 20."
From 1974 to 2023, it was part of the district of Ryedale, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
The name Welburn derives from the Old English wellaburna meaning 'spring by a stream'.