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 was part of the Ryedale district.

It is mentioned three times in the Domesday Book as Osboldewic.^[1] 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, about two miles 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. A new (2006) housing development known as Murton Gardens was built by Wimpey Homes on the link road, on the site of a farm building and surrounding fields; and (more controversially) a development known as Derwenthorpe was granted planning permission on 10 May 2007 for the green-belt land 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 village is also served by a number of buses running from edge of Osbaldwick on the A1079 (Hull Road), including the No. 10 from Poppleton to Stamford Bridge via the city centre and railway station, the No. 8 Park and Ride bus from Grimston Bar to Picadilly in the city centre, and various services to East Yorkshire. 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, a fish and chip shop (which regularly wins awards from local Boy Scout groups) and a Chinese takeaway. The village post office closed in July 2003.

Osbaldwick is the burial place of the greatly-respected Roman Catholic nun Mary Ward, who founded the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also known as the Sisters of Loreto.

Between 1913 and 1926 Osbaldwick was served by a station on the Derwent Valley Light Railway. This line remained open to freight until 1981, and a Sustrans cycle path now runs on the former track bed from the village into York.

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