Kirby Wiske is an English village and civil parish in the former Hambleton District of North Yorkshire. It lies beside the River Wiske, about 4 miles north-west of Thirsk. The village appears in the 1086 Domesday Book as Kirkebi in the Allerton Hundred. After the Norman invasion, Domesday states, the manor passed from Edwin, Earl of Mercia, to the Crown o…Kirby Wiske is an English village and civil parish in the former Hambleton District of North Yorkshire. It lies beside the River Wiske, about 4 miles north-west of Thirsk. The village appears in the 1086 Domesday Book as Kirkebi in the Allerton Hundred. After the Norman invasion, Domesday states, the manor passed from Edwin, Earl of Mercia, to the Crown of England.