Thixendale

{{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|54.039|-0.714|display=inline,title}}

| label_position = top

| official_name = Thixendale

| population = 200

| population_ref = (2016 estimate)

| 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.

The place name Thixendale is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Sixtendale and Xistendale.{{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}} The name means 'Sigstein's Dale or Valley'. The name Sigstein is also the source for the name of Sysonby in Leicestershire.{{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}}

Historically part of the East Riding of Yorkshire, from 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Ryedale, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

In 2016, the North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population of the parish to be 200.{{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.

The only pub, the Cross Keys, is a regular winner of local CAMRA awards.{{cite web|url=http://www.thixendale.org.uk/info/Cross%20Keys.html|title=The Village of Thixendale : Cross Keys |accessdate=5 September 2022}}

The Yorkshire Wolds Way National Trail, a long-distance footpath, passes to the east end of the village.

The church of St Mary, 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.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1316014|desc=Church of Saint Mary|accessdate=27 June 2013}} It is on the Sykes Churches Trail devised by the East Yorkshire Historic Churches Group.{{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}}

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.{{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}}