Birkin is a village and civil parish in the south-west of the county of North Yorkshire, England, north of the River Aire and near Beal. The closest town is Knottingley, in West Yorkshire, 4 miles to the south-west. The parish had a population of 146 at the 2001 census, which fell to 141 at the 2011 census. Until 1974 it was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, from 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Selby District, and it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council. It appears in the Domesday Book as Birchinge, a name that suggests a birch wooded area, and St Mary's Church, built around 1150, is a Grade I listed building. Birkin is the birthplace of the nineteenth century philosopher Thomas Hill Green, born in 1836.
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Green was born in Birkin, Yorkshire, April 7, 1836.
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