Flaxby
Coordinates: 54°00′54″N 1°23′53″W / 54.01509°N 1.39796°W
Flaxby is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is close to the A1 road and 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Knaresborough.
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Goldsborough Cold Store, one of forty built during the Second World War at road and rail links, still in use as a storage depot
Flaxby was once part of the wapentake of Claro.[1] It is also part of the ecclesiastical parish of Goldsborough (St Mary).[2]
In 1994, an Early Iron Age farmstead of the 7th–6th centuries BC was discovered by archaeologists, but the site was abandoned until the late Roman period.[3]
References
- ↑ Historic details: Lewis, Samuel, ed. (1848). A Topographical Dictionary of England. p. 242.
- ↑ "Ecclesiastical parish web site".
- ↑ Historic England. "Monument No. 1128327". PastScape. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
External links
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