Thixendale appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Acklam in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Acklam

The Meaning of the Name

The name Thixendale is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word dalr, a valley. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a valley’.

Names of this type are a fingerprint of Scandinavian settlement: they cluster across the old Danelaw, where Norse-speaking settlers renamed or founded villages from the late 9th century onward.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Thixendale.

Listed Buildings Near Thixendale

Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Thixendale. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Church of Saint Mary - 0.56 km

Grade II

Round the Bend - 0.47 km
Lych Gate 15 Metres North of Church of Saint Mary - 0.54 km
Cross 10 Metres North of Church of Saint Mary - 0.54 km
The Old Vicarage - 0.55 km
The Village Hall and Dunelm - 0.57 km
Raisthorpe Manor - 0.86 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Thixendale

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Thixendale:

Round barrow N of manor house - 0.66 km
A cross-dyke in Vessey Pasture Dale - 1.52 km
A cross-dyke from Toisland Wold to Vessey Pasture Dale incorporating a bowl barrow - 1.56 km

Thixendale Today

Today Thixendale lies within the administrative area of Ryedale, and the settlement recorded a population of 196 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Thixendale on Wikipedia .