Kirkby Malzeard (/ˈkɜːrbi ˈmælzərd/)[2] is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England.

The suffix Malzeard (another place-name, meaning "bad clearing" in Norman French) was added by the early 12th century.

[6] In 1307, King Edward I granted Kirkby Malzeard the right to hold two fairs annually, and a weekly market on Wednesday.

There was an outcry, and after a year of litigation, Helliwell was compelled to remove a cottage and part of his house that were encroaching on the Market Place.

A second pub, The Henry Jenkins, (named after a man from Ellerton-on-Swale who died in 1670, allegedly aged 169), closed on 29 June 2008,[9] and in 2016 is derelict.