Temple Hirst is a village and civil parish in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England.

It was formerly in the wapentake of Barkston Ash in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

[2] The village is located on the north bank of the River Aire.

[3] 'Hirst' is from the Old English for copse or wooded hill, suggesting a patch of slightly higher ground in this low-lying landscape.

[8] Temple Manor is a 17th-century house which includes a late 15th- or early 16th-century tower from the house of the Darcy family, and a stone doorway from Temple Hirst Preceptory.