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Thixendale
Location within North Yorkshire
Population200 (2016 estimate) [1]
OS grid reference SE840611
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Region
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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. Historically part of the East Riding of Yorkshire, it is located in the Yorkshire Wolds about 20 miles east of York.

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]

In 2016, the North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population of the parish to be 200. [1]

The only pub, the Cross Keys, is a regular winner of local CAMRA awards. [4]

The Yorkshire Wolds Way National Trail, a long-distance footpath, passes to the east end of 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. [5] It is on the Sykes Churches Trail devised by the East Yorkshire Historic Churches Group. [6]

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. [7]

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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. ISBN   0-19-869103-3.
  4. "The Village of Thixendale : Cross Keys" . Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  5. Historic England. "Church of Saint Mary (1316014)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 27 June 2013.
  6. "The Village of Thixendale : St Mary's Church History". www.thixendale.org.uk. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
  7. Burn, Chris (10 May 2021). "Beauty of the area famous for the 'village with no TV'". The Yorkshire Post. p. 18. ISSN   0963-1496.