{{Short description|Village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox UK place | country = England | static_image_name = Thixendale Village.jpg | static_image_caption = Thixendale | coordinates = {{coord|54|02|20|N|0|42|53|W|display=inline,title}} | label_position = top | official_name = Thixendale | population = 200 | population_ref = (2016 estimate)<ref name=popest/> | unitary_england = North Yorkshire | lieutenancy_england = North Yorkshire | region = Yorkshire and the Humber | constituency_westminster = Thirsk and Malton | post_town = MALTON | postcode_district = YO17 | postcode_area = YO | dial_code = 01377 | os_grid_reference = SE840611 }} '''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.<ref name=popest>{{cite web|url=https://hub.datanorthyorkshire.org/dataset/population-estimates/resource/62a70111-c1b9-43b4-a64d-e8c339694aa2|website=Data North Yorkshire|title=Parish population estimates|accessdate=28 August 2022}} In the 2011 census the population of the parish was included with Wharram and not separately counted.</ref>
The place name ''Thixendale'' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as ''Sixtendale'' and ''Xistendale''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Thixendale :: Survey of English Place-Names |url=http://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/East+Riding+of+Yorkshire/Wharram+Percy/5328549ab47fc40a4d00057b-Thixendale |website=epns.nottingham.ac.uk |access-date=10 May 2021}}</ref> The name means 'Sigstein's Dale or Valley'. The name ''Sigstein'' is also the source for the name of Sysonby in Leicestershire.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ekwall |first1=Eilert |author-link=Eilert Ekwall |title=The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names |date=1960 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |oclc=1228215388 |page=466 |edition=4}}</ref>
Thixendale was historically a township in the ancient parish of Wharram Percy in the East Riding of Yorkshire.<ref name=genuki>{{Genuki|county=ERY|Wharram Percy}}</ref> It became a separate civil parish in 1866,<ref>{{cite vob|name=Thixendale Tn/CP | url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10471230 | accessdate=12 August 2025}} </ref> and in 1872 was separated to form a new ecclesiastical parish with Raisthorpe and Burdale.<ref name="genuki" /> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thixendale.org.uk/info/Cross%20Keys.html|title=The Village of Thixendale : Cross Keys |accessdate=5 September 2022}}</ref>
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.
St Mary's Church, 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.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1316014|desc=Church of Saint Mary|accessdate=27 June 2013}}</ref> It is on the Sykes Churches Trail devised by the East Yorkshire Historic Churches Group.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Village of Thixendale : St Mary's Church History |url=http://www.thixendale.org.uk/history/places/StMarys.html |website=www.thixendale.org.uk |access-date=10 May 2021}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Burn |first1=Chris |title=Beauty of the area famous for the 'village with no TV' |work=The Yorkshire Post |date=10 May 2021 |page=18|issn=0963-1496}}</ref>
==See also== *Listed buildings in Thixendale
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==External links== {{Commons category|Thixendale}} *{{OpenDomesday|OS=SE8461|name=thixendale|display=Thixendale}} * [http://www.thixendale.org.uk/ The Village of Thixendale] information about the village, where to stay, interesting walks in the area, pictures and other local information, * [https://archive.today/20120302235220/http://www.roydene61.demon.co.uk/milestones/1999dec/thixendale.htm A requiem to Thixendale's Youth Hostel]
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