Flaxby

Flaxby

Flaxby
Flaxby
 Flaxby shown within North Yorkshire
Population 156 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceSE395578
Civil parishFlaxby
DistrictHarrogate
Shire countyNorth Yorkshire
RegionYorkshire and the Humber
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town KNARESBOROUGH
Postcode district HG5
Police North Yorkshire
Fire North Yorkshire
Ambulance Yorkshire
EU Parliament Yorkshire and the Humber
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Coordinates: 54°00′54″N 1°23′53″W / 54.01509°N 1.39796°W / 54.01509; -1.39796

Flaxby is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is close to the A1 road and 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Knaresborough.

Goldsborough Cold Store, one of forty built during the Second World War at road and rail links, still in use as a storage depot

Flaxby was once part of the wapentake of Claro.[2] It is also part of the ecclesiastical parish of Goldsborough (St Mary).[3]

In 1994, an Early Iron Age farmstead of the 7th–6th centuries BC was discovered by archaeologists, but the site was abandoned until the late Roman period.[4]

References

  1. "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 6 August 2015.
  2. Historic details: Lewis, Samuel, ed. (1848). A Topographical Dictionary of England. p. 242.
  3. "Ecclesiastical parish web site".
  4. Historic England. "Monument No. 1128327". PastScape. Retrieved 20 March 2015.

External links

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