Thirkleby High and Low with Osgodby

The Domesday Book mentions the village of Thirkleby as "Turchilebi" in the wapentake of Yarlestre and belonging to the Coxwold manor. There were 54 villagers, and the land consisted of ploughed fields and woodland.{{cite book |editor1-last=Morris |editor1-first=John |title=Domesday Book Yorkshire |date=1986 |publisher=Phillimore |location=Chichester |page=327B}} At the time of the Norman invasion, the lands belonged to Kofse, but soon afterwards they were granted to Hugh, son of Baldric.{{OpenDomesday|OS=SE4976|name=thirkleby|display= Thirkleby|accessdate=10 February 2013}} Soon afterwards, the manor was in the hands of the Mowbray family, and it followed the descent of the manor of Thirsk until the 16th century. A mesne lordship was held in the parish by Robert de Buscy in the 12th century, with some land granted to Byland Abbey. The Buscy family held this land until at least 1348. Other landowners in the 12th century in the manor were the Meynell family. Some of their land seems to have been granted by marriage to the de Burton family, who also held lands in West Harlsey.{{cite book |editor1-last=Page |editor1-first=William |title=The Victoria history of the county of York, North Riding |date=1968 |publisher=Dawsons of Pall Mall for the University of London Institute of Historical Research |location=London |page=56|isbn=0712903100}}

The greater manor passed from the Buscy family to the Crown following their involvement in the 1322 uprisings. They were acquired by Sir Thomas Ughtred in 1361. The manor was sold to Sir Roger Fulthorpe in 1383 and remained in the family until the late 16th century, when it was seized by the Crown. It was subsequently sold to the Earl of Warwick, who sold it in turn to William Frankland. It remained in the Frankland family, though not always in the direct line of succession, until the late 19th century.{{cite web |title=Parishes: Thirkleby {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/north/vol2/pp55-58 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk |access-date=12 June 2023}}

The lesser manor passed from the de Burton family to Marmaduke Darell in 1363 and thereafter followed the inheritance of the manor of Sessay. The lands that make up Osgodby were those that were granted to the church.

The toponymy is derived from the Danish personal name of Thorkel or Thirkel, suffixed with by to give the meaning of Thorkel's farm.{{cite book|title=Bulmer's Topography, History and Directory (Private and Commercial) of North Yorkshire 1890 |pages=812–813|year=2002|origyear=1890 |publisher= S&N Publishing|isbn= 1-86150-299-0}}

Thirkleby Hall used to stand to the west of Great Thirkleby. It was built between 1780 and 1785 for Sir Thomas Frankland, 6th Baronet and was situated in around {{convert|200|acre|ha}} of grounds. At the end of the First World War, the estate was without any heir and was auctioned off, except for the hall which did not find a buyer until 1927 when it was dismantled entirely. The grounds are now used for holiday accommodation in the form of cottages and static caravans.{{cite web|url=http://www.thirklebyhall.co.uk/about-thirkleby-hall.html|title=Hall and Grounds|access-date=10 February 2013}}{{Dead link|date=January 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

{{cite web|url=http://www.greenwoodparks.net/thirkleby/ |title=Thirkleby Hall Caravan Park }}

Prisoner of war camp number 108 was built at Sandhill (on Low Road at the southern edge of Little Thirkleby) as a working camp for German prisoners during the Second World War.{{cite web|url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/prisoner-of-war-camps/prisoner-of-war-camps.pdf/|title=English Heritage list of POW camps (1939–1948)|access-date=8 September 2013}} It has been used as a pig farm for many years, but the water tower and many of the buildings have survived.

A Roman fort was discovered at Thirkleby in 2018, through the study of aerial photography. The fort is considered to date to the Flavian period on the basis of its layout.{{Cite journal|last1=Millett|first1=Martin|last2=Brickstock|first2=Richard|date=2020|title=An Early Roman Fort at Thirkleby, North Yorkshire|journal=Britannia|volume=51 |language=en|pages=318–323|doi=10.1017/S0068113X20000021|issn=0068-113X|doi-access=free}}

The village lies within the Thirsk and Malton UK Parliament constituency.{{cite web |title=Election Maps |url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/?x=449134&y=477232&z=6&bnd1=CPC&bnd2=WMC&labels=off |website=ordnancesurvey.co.uk |access-date=12 June 2023}} From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Hambleton, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

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The parish is {{convert|2,592|acre|ha}} in size. The parish consists of the villages of Great (or High) Thirkleby and Little (or Low) Thirkleby, and the scattered hamlet of Osgodby. Thirkleby Beck divides Great and Little Thirkleby and runs south as part of the tributary system of the River Swale. The A19 road passes north-westward through the southern part of the parish. The two villages are linked by Arden Bridge, which is a Grade II listed structure probably built by John Carr in the 18th century.{{NHLE|num=1191018|desc=ARDEN BRIDGE OVER THIRKLEBY BECK|accessdate=1 October 2022}}{{cite web | url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-government/tools-support/open-data-support | title=OpenData support | OS Tools & Support }}{{nonspecific|date=June 2023}}

The nearest settlements to the centre point of the two villages are Bagby {{convert|1.3|mi}} to the north-west, Kilburn {{convert|2.3|mi}} to the east, Carlton Husthwaite {{convert|1.8|mi}} to the south-east and Hutton Sessay {{convert|1.5| mi}} to the south.

In 1881, the UK Census recorded the population as 261. In 2001 the UK Census recorded a population of 224, of whom 47.8% were male and 52.2% were female, and 191 were over the age of sixteen years.{{NOMIS2001|id=36UC149|title=Thirkleby High and Low with Osgodby Parish|accessdate=1 October 2022}} The 2011 UK Census recorded a population of 266, of which 47.4% were male and 52.6% were female and 232 were over the age of sixteen years. Population density was recorded as 0.2 per hectare.

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The church is a Grade II* listed building, dedicated to All Saints. It was designed by Victorian architect Edward Buckton Lamb and built in 1851 for Lady Frankland-Russell of Thirkleby Park, in memory of her husband Robert. The burial vault of the earlier church was retained but the fine pews were moved to the church of St Andrew's at Blubberhouses (another Frankland-Russell estate church also designed by E. B. Lamb). All Saints has several Frankland memorials and other monumental inscriptions, including a fine piece by the sculptor John Flaxman.{{cite web |title=Thirkleby All Saints |url=https://www.nationalchurchestrust.org/church/all-saints-thirkleby |website=nationalchurchestrust.org |access-date=12 June 2023}}

The previous church was rebuilt in 1722 on the site of the original 12th-century building.{{NHLE|num=1315254|desc=CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS|accessdate=1 October 2022}}

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• Sir Thomas Frankland – Admiral of the White, Governor of Bengal, MP for Thirsk (1747–1780 and 1784). The Frankland Islands off the Queensland coast are named after him.{{cite ODNB|first=A. W. H.|last=Pearson|title=Frankland, Sir Thomas, fifth baronet|id=10087|date=23 September 2004}}

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• [http://allsaintsthirkleby.org.uk All Saints Thirkleby]

Category:Civil parishes in North Yorkshire