TIBTHORPE is a township and village, in the parish of and 1 mile west from Kirkburn, 2 ¼ north-west from Southburn station on the Driffield and Market Weighton section of the North Eastern railway and 5 miles south-west from Driffield. There is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1823 and enlarged in 1850; in 1905 a schoolroom was added and the chapel renovated. The Earl of Londesborough K.C.V.O. is lord of the manor. Sir Tatton Sykes bart. Sir Prince Smith bart. J.P. of Southburn, Harold Hornby Staveley esq. J.P. of Tibthorpe, the Misses Staveley, of Driffield, Arthur Botterill esq. of Gartonon-the-Wolds, and Major John William Dent, of Ribston Hall, Wetherby, are the principal landowners. The acreage is 2,885; rateable value, £4,798; the population in 1911 was 231.