Pickhill is a village in

North Yorkshire North Yorkshire is the largest ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county (lieutenancy area) in England, covering an area of . Around 40% of the county is covered by National parks of the United Kingdom, national parks, including most of ...

, England, west of

Thirsk Thirsk is a market town and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England known for its racecourse; quirky yarnbomber displays, and depiction as local author James Herriot's fictional Darrowby. History Archeological fin ...

. It forms part of

Hambleton District Hambleton is a local government district in North Yorkshire, England. The administrative centre is Northallerton, and the district includes the outlying towns and villages of Bedale, Thirsk, Great Ayton, Stokesley, and Easingwold. The dist ...

, and is a part of the

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Pickhill with Roxby Pickhill is a village in North Yorkshire, England, west of Thirsk. It forms part of Hambleton District, and is a part of the civil parish of Pickhill with Roxby. History The Roman road, ''Dere Street'', passed close to the village followin ...

History

The

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, ''

Dere Street Dere Street or Deere Street is a modern designation of a Roman road which ran north from Eboracum (York), crossing the Stanegate at Corbridge (Hadrian's Wall was crossed at the Portgate, just to the north) and continuing beyond into what is n ...

'', passed close to the village following the route of the modern

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. The village is mentioned in the ''

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'' as ''Picala''. The manor at the time of the Norman invasion was split between ''Sprot'' and ''Thor''. Afterwards it passed to Count Alan of Brittany. Up to the 16th century, the manor was largely owned by the ''Neville'' family, with some having been given to Fountains Abbey. Thereafter it was split in two and was the possession of the ''Byerley'' and ''Meynell'' families until the 18th century. Pickhill with Roxby was a large

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, which comprised the

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s of

Ainderby Quernhow Ainderby Quernhow is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. The village is situated on the B6267 Thirsk to Masham road just east of the A1(M) and is about five miles west of Thirsk. The population of ...

, Holme,

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, Pickhill with Roxby, Sinderby and

Swainby with Allerthorpe Swainby with Allerthorpe is a civil parish in the Hambleton District, Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was less than 100. Details are included in the civil parish of Carthorpe ...

. All these townships became separate civil parishes in 1866. The village used to have a station in the North Eastern Railway region on the Ripon to Northallerton Line. The old Station House can be found on Cross Lane. It was functioning between March 1875 and September 1959.

Roxby

Roxby is a

deserted medieval village In the United Kingdom, a deserted medieval village (DMV) is a former settlement which was abandoned during the Middle Ages, typically leaving no trace apart from earthworks or cropmarks. If there are fewer than three inhabited houses the convent ...

about west of the village, recorded in 1198. By the 20th century it was reduced to a single farmhouse, Roxby House. The farmhouse was demolished in 1994 to make way for the construction of the

Governance

The village lies within the Richmond (Yorks) UK Parliament constituency. It is also within the Bedale electoral division of North Yorkshire County Council and the Tanfield ward of Hambleton District Council.

Geography

The village is located a mile east of the A1(M), and its nearest neighbours are Sinderby to the south, Holme to the south-east and

to the south. Pickhill Beck runs through the village before joining the nearby

River Swale The River Swale in Yorkshire, England, is a major tributary of the River Ure, which becomes the River Ouse, that empties into the North Sea via the Humber Estuary. The river gives its name to Swaledale, the valley through which it flows. Th ...

The 2001 UK Census recorded the population as 411, of which 318 were over the age of sixteen years. There were 157 dwellings of which 112 were detached.

Education

The village has one school, Pickhill CE Primary School, which is within the catchment area of Thirsk School for secondary education.

Religion

There is a church in the village dedicated to ''All Saints''. Built around the 12th century, it is a Grade II* listed building that has been restored several times. There was a Wesleyan Chapel erected in the village around 1864, now disused.

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