Kirkby Fleetham is a village in the former Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the A1(M) road.

Both are mentioned in the Domesday Book as Cherchebi and Fleetha both belonging to the lands of Count Alan of Brittany.

The lands of Fleetham before the Norman Conquest were owned by Gamli, son of Karli and Uhtred.

[4][5] The manor of Kirkby was passed to Aldred's son Gospatric, whose daughter Godareda succeeded to his lands, but a clear line of succession does not emerge again until William Giffard in the thirteenth century, whose demesne lordship subsequently lapsed.

The demesne titles were then in the possession of the Stapleton family until 1514 when Sir Thomas Metham let the lands to the Conyers.

[6][7] The manor of Fleetham passed to the Scrope family of Castle Bolton in the thirteenth century.

[6][7] The moated site in the parish at grid reference SE284942, south of the Three Tuns Inn, is a scheduled ancient monument.

It is a grade II* listed building[15] and contains a monument by the sculptor John Flaxman to William Lawrence of Kirkby Fleetham Hall in the form of the bust of a young man with his mourning wife Anne Sophie.

[6] Kirkby Fleetham Hall is a grade II* listed[16] 18th-century country house which stands a mile to the north of the village.