GREAT HABTON is a township and village in Kirby Misperton parish, 2 miles north from Amotherby station on the North Eastern railway, and 6 north from Malton, in Malton union. The church of St. Chad, opened Thursday, Feb. 7, 1884, is an edifice of red brick with stone dressings in the Gothic style, from designs by Mr. Chas Hodgson Fowler, architect, of Durham, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a western turret con taming one bell: there are 100 sittings. There is a Wesleyan chapel. Robert Metcalfe esq. J.P. of West Royd, Malton, who is lord of the manor, and Henry W. Lesley esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is a rich loam and sandy; the subsoil, clay and sand. The chief crops are turnips, wheat, oats and barley. The area is 947 acres of land and 3 of water; rateable value, 1,101; the population in 1911 was 131.

Public Elementary school, erected in 1857 & rebuilt & enlarged in 1895, for 45 children; average attendance, 39.