Hensall
Hensall is a village and civil parish in the English county of North Yorkshire. Hensall has about 852 residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 852 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England
- Also known as: “Hensall, North Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hensall railway station and St Paul’s Church, Hensall.
Hensall railway station
Railway station
Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hensall railway station serves the village of Hensall in North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Pontefract Line and is 22 miles east of Leeds. The line is used regularly by the freight companies GB Railfreight, Freightliner and DB Cargo UK that transport coal and limestone to Drax and remove the gypsum created by the flue-gas treatment equipment.
St Paul’s Church, Hensall
Church
Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Paul's Church is the parish church of Hensall, North Yorkshire, a village in England. Until the mid-19th century, Hensall formed part of the parish of St Laurence's Church, Snaith.
Eggborough power station
Photo: Paul Glazzard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eggborough power station was a coal-fired power station in North Yorkshire, England, which was capable of co-firing biomass. It was situated on the River Aire, between the towns of Knottingley and Snaith, deriving its name from the nearby village of Eggborough.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Great Heck and Gowdall.
Great Heck
Village
Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Great Heck is a small village in Heck parish, about 7 miles south of Selby, North Yorkshire, England. The population of the parish was 201 at the 2011 census.
Gowdall
Village
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gowdall is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 1 mile west of the town of Snaith, 1 mile to the north of the M62 motorway and the A645 road, and just south of the River Aire. Gowdall is situated 2 miles east of Hensall.
Eggborough
Village
Photo: Iain Macaulay, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eggborough is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, close to the county borders with South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and the East Riding. Eggborough is situated 2 miles west of Hensall.
Hensall
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Hensall, Selby District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.70325° or 53° 42′ 12″ northLongitude
-1.10416° or 1° 6′ 15″ westPopulation
852Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB HE2Open location code
9C5WPV3W+78OpenStreetMap ID
node 29803964OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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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 “Hensall”. Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.