Dishforth

The main street in Dishforth

Dishforth /ˈdɪʃfəθ/[1] is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. The population of the parish taken at the 2011 census was 905.[2]

It is near RAF Dishforth, a local Army Air Corps helicopter station. The village is close to the A1(M) and the A168. The original route of the Great North Road runs through the village but a Royal Air Force Station was built over the old road which used to be the A1 and later the A167.

References

  1. ↑ Wells, John (29 January 2010). "Bessacarr". John Wells's phonetic blog. Retrieved 5 March 2010.
  2. ↑ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 7 August 2015.

External links

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Coordinates: 54°09′N 1°25′W / 54.150°N 1.417°W / 54.150; -1.417


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