Osbaldwick

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Osbaldwick is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of City of York in the north of England, east of York.

According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 2,726. Prior to 1996 it had been part of the Ryedale district.

It is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Osbaldeuuic. It is named after Osbald, an earl in the kingdom of Northumbria. The village is home to Osbaldwick Hall and the 12th century St. Thomas Church (although this has been extended with a modern building). The village has been a Conservation Area since 1978.

Osbaldwick is now effectively a suburb of York, located a couple of miles to the east of the city. The village proper lies mostly along one street (Osbaldwick Village); newer housing surrounds this and Osbaldwick is now effectively bounded on three sides by the A1079 to the South, the A64 (forming part of York's Ring Road) to the East and by green-belt land to the North, although this is under threat. To the West, newer housing merges into the Tang Hall district.

Light industrial/trading estates exist to the east of the village (heading towards Murton) and along Osbaldwick Link Road which links it to the A1079, with a large do-it-yourself store on the edge of the village. New housing (known as Murton Gardens) is being built on the link road and (more controversially) a development known as Derwenthorpe is planned for the green-belt land to the North of the village. Some farmland also exists between Osbaldwick and Murton.

Osbaldwick is served by the No. 6 bus route which runs (theoretically, at peak times) every ten minutes through Osbaldwick, Tang Hall, Layerthorpe and the city centre, continuing on to Clifton Moor. The No. 10 from Poppleton to Stamford Bridge via the city centre and various services to East Yorkshire stop on the edge of Osbaldwick on the A1079 (Hull Road). It has two pubs, the Derwent Arms in the old part of the village and the Magnet near the newer houses on Osbaldwick Lane; as well as a small number of local shops, Osbaldwick offers a fish and chip shop and a Chinese takeaway. The village post office closed in 2004.