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Flaxby
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Also known as Flaxby, North Yorkshire

Flaxby is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is close to the A1(M) motorway and east of Knaresborough. thumb|left|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. Until 1974 it was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Borough of Harrogate, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

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Place details

Region
England
Country
United Kingdom
Population
0

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Key facts

UK place.country
England
UK place.label_position
left
UK place.official_name
Flaxby
UK place.static_image_name
Flaxby=Geograph-1027090-by-Gordon-Hatton.jpg
UK place.static_image_caption
Flaxby
UK place.population
156
UK place.population_ref
(2011)
UK place.civil_parish
Flaxby
UK place.unitary_england
North Yorkshire
UK place.lieutenancy_england
North Yorkshire
UK place.region
Yorkshire and the Humber
UK place.post_town
KNARESBOROUGH
UK place.postcode_district
HG5
UK place.postcode_area
HG
UK place.os_grid_reference
SE395578

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
civil parish
Located in
Harrogate
Population
156
Image
Flaxby=Geograph-1027090-by-Gordon-Hatton.jpg
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Commons category
Flaxby
postal code
HG5
OS grid reference
SE395578
historic county
Yorkshire
P8168
Luton
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Encyclopedic overview

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Flaxby is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is close to the A1(M) motorway and east of Knaresborough. thumb|left|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. Until 1974 it was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Borough of Harrogate, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

It is also part of the ecclesiastical parish of Goldsborough (St Mary).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Flaxby” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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