North Yorkshire
Scarborough District
Roxby

Roxby

Roxby is a village and civil parish in the county of , England. It is located near . The population of the civil parish was estimated at 120 in 2014, about the same as the 2001 UK census figure of 119.
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  • Type: Village with 108 residents
  • Description: village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, UK
  • Also known as: “Roxby, North Yorkshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St Nicholas’ Church, Roxby and Boulby Mine.

Church
Photo: Michael Jagger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Nicholas' Church is the of Roxby, North Yorkshire, a village in England. Roxby has a chapel of ease in the parish of from the Mediaeval period, which was rebuilt for Thomas Boynton in about 1520.

Quarry
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The is an underground mining operation with surface facilities located just south-east of the village of , on the north-east coast of the , 2.7 miles east of .

Mine
Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, was an ironstone mine working the main Cleveland Seam near to Roxby in , England. Initially, the ironstone was mined specifically for the furnaces at the Palmer Shipbuilders in on the , but later, the mine became independent of Palmers.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Easington and Boulby.

Village
Photo: Stephen McCulloch, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in the civil parish of , in the district, in the ceremonial county of , England and is part of the . is situated 1½ miles northwest of Roxby.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet in the parish, located within the North York Moors National Park. It is in the borough of , , England. is situated 1½ miles north of Roxby.

Village
is a village and civil parish in , England which lies within the North York Moors National Park, about a mile from the coast on the A174 road between the towns of and . is situated 2 miles east of Roxby.

Roxby

Latitude
54.53539° or 54° 32′ 7″ north
Longitude
-0.82462° or 0° 49′ 29″ west
Population
108
Elevation
617 feet (188 metres)
Open location code
9C6XG5PG+55
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1140853151
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2639031
Wiki­data ID
Q950785
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Turkish—“Roxby” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Roxby”
  • Dutch: “Roxby”
  • French: “Roxby”
  • Irish: “Roxby”
  • Persian: “راکسبی، یورک‌شر شمالی”
  • Polish: “Roxby”
  • Swedish: “Roxby”
  • Turkish: “Roxby, North Yorkshire”
  • “Roxby”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Roxby”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.