Thixendale

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Thixendale
Location within North Yorkshire
Population200 (2016 estimate) [1]
OS grid reference SE840611
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town MALTON
Postcode district YO17
Dialling code 01377
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54°02′20″N0°42′50″W / 54.039°N 0.714°W / 54.039; -0.714

Thixendale is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is located in the Yorkshire Wolds about 20 miles east of York. In 2016, the North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population of the parish to be 200. [1]

The place name Thixendale is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Sixtendale and Xistendale. [2] The name means 'Sigstein's Dale or Valley'. The name Sigstein is also the source for the name of Sysonby in Leicestershire. [3]

Thixendale was historically a township in the ancient parish of Wharram Percy in the East Riding of Yorkshire. [4] It became a separate civil parish in 1866, [5] and in 1872 was separated to form a new ecclesiastical parish with Raisthorpe and Burdale. [4] In 1974 The civil parish was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Ryedale. It is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

The only pub, the Cross Keys, is a regular winner of local CAMRA awards. [6]

The Yorkshire Wolds Way National Trail passes through the village. Two other long distance footpaths, the Centenary Way and the Chalkland Way, also pass through the village.

The church of St Mary, Thixendale is one of a group of village buildings according to designs by George Edmund Street in 1868–1870. It was designated in 1966 by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building. [7] It is on the Sykes Churches Trail devised by the East Yorkshire Historic Churches Group. [8]

For many years until the late 1990s, television signals were blocked by the surrounding hills until a small transmitter was built, providing the village with terrestrial television for the first time. The transmitter ceased operation in the early 2000s, with villagers now relying on satellite TV and, since 2017, fast broadband. [9]

References

  1. 1 2 "Parish population estimates". Data North Yorkshire. Retrieved 28 August 2022. In the 2011 census the population of the parish was included with Wharram and not separately counted.
  2. ↑ "Thixendale :: Survey of English Place-Names". epns.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
  3. ↑ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 466. OCLC   1228215388.
  4. 1 2 Percy The ancient parish of Wharram Percy : historical and genealogical information at GENUKI .
  5. ↑ Great Britain Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Thixendale Tn/CP . Retrieved 12 August 2025.
  6. ↑ "The Village of Thixendale : Cross Keys" . Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  7. ↑ Historic England. "Church of Saint Mary (1316014)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 27 June 2013.
  8. ↑ "The Village of Thixendale : St Mary's Church History". www.thixendale.org.uk. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
  9. ↑ Burn, Chris (10 May 2021). "Beauty of the area famous for the 'village with no TV'". The Yorkshire Post. p. 18. ISSN   0963-1496.
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