[2] The village was mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to the then bishop of Durham (St Cuthbert), and having three ploughlands.

[9] The settlement has fallen into disrepair, many of the remaining buildings are derelict, there are barely enough houses to constitute a hamlet.

[11] A public bridle path crosses the bridge linking Girsby with the nearby village of Neasham on the opposite bank of the river.

[12] The church at Girsby was visited each Sunday by worshippers from across the River Tees, and in her later years (when she was widowed), Theophania Blackett objected to people traipsing past her house, and so she blocked off the paths to the ford.

The village was in the wapentake of Allertonshire, the parish of Sockburn (which was actually in County Durham), and the Croft Rural District.