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Malham Moor is a civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. Its population was estimated at 70 in 2015. In the 2011 Census the population was included in the civil parish of Malham and not counted separately.
It has a joint parish council, Kirkby Malhamdale Parish Council, with the parishes of Malham, Kirkby Malham and Hanlith.
There is no village in the parish. The parish includes scattered farms and houses, Malham Tarn and large areas of moorland, including Fountains Fell. The upland area identified on Ordnance Survey maps as Malham Moor lies outside the parish, to the east. It is north west of Threshfield along Malham Moor Lane. Its summit is at 411m.()
Malham Moor was historically a township in the ancient parish of Kirkby Malham in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Genuki website It became a civil parish in 1866, Vision of Britain website and in 1974 was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Craven District, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
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