Camblesforth
Camblesforth is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. According to the 2001 Census, the civil parish had a population of 1,526, increasing to 1,568 at the 2011 Census.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 2,060 residents
- Description: village in North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Camblesforth, North Yorkshire”
Photo: Chemical Engineer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Drax Power Station and Holy Family Catholic High School, Carlton.
Drax Power Station
Power station
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Drax power station is a large biomass power station in Drax, North Yorkshire, England. It has a 2.6 GW capacity for biomass and had a 1.29 GW capacity for coal that was retired in 2021.
Holy Family Catholic High School, Carlton
School
Holy Family Catholic High School is a coeducational Roman Catholic secondary school located in Carlton in the county of North Yorkshire, England.
St Mary’s Anglican Church, Carlton
Church
Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Mary's Church is an Anglican parish church in Carlton, a village near Selby in North Yorkshire, in England. The first church in Carlton was a wooden chapel of ease to St Laurence's Church, Snaith, built in 1379.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Snaith and Long Drax.
Snaith
Town
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Snaith is a market town in the civil parish of Snaith and Cowick in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Snaith is administered by the East Riding of Yorkshire unitary authority and, since the 2024 general election, forms part of the Goole and Pocklington constituency. Snaith is situated 2½ miles south of Camblesforth.
Long Drax
Hamlet
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Long Drax is a small hamlet and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England, about 2 miles north-east of Drax. In 2011 it had a population of 125. Long Drax is situated 2½ miles northeast of Camblesforth.
Gowdall
Village
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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 2½ miles southwest of Camblesforth.
Camblesforth
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Camblesforth, Selby District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.72651° or 53° 43′ 35″ northLongitude
-1.01812° or 1° 1′ 5″ westPopulation
2,060Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)Open location code
9C5WPXGJ+JQOpenStreetMap ID
node 65249466OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6324759Wikidata ID
Q268602
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Camblesforth” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Camblesforth”
- Dutch: “Camblesforth”
- French: “Camblesforth”
- Irish: “Camblesforth”
- Japanese: “キャンブルズフォース”
- Polish: “Camblesforth”
- Spanish: “Camblesforth”
- Swedish: “Camblesforth”
- Turkish: “Camblesforth”
- “Camblesforth”
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