Long Drax
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Glyn Drury, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet with 109 residents
- Description: settlement and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Langrick” and “Long Drax, North Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Drax Power Station and St Mary the Virgin.
Drax Power Station
Power station
Photo: David Wright, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
St Mary the Virgin
Church
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St Mary the Virgin, Hemingbrough, also known as Hemingbrough Minster, is a church in Hemingbrough, which is near Selby in North Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building.
St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Drax
Church
Photo: Chemical Engineer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Peter and St Paul's Church is the parish church of Drax, North Yorkshire, a village in England. The church was founded during the reign of Henry I of England by William Paynel, who also founded Drax Priory.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Newsholme and South Duffield.
Newsholme
Hamlet
Photo: Charles Rispin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Newsholme is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 2 miles north-west of the market town of Howden and lies on the north side of the A63 road. Newsholme is situated 2½ miles east of Long Drax.
South Duffield
Hamlet
Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cliffe is a small village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It was historically part of the East Riding of Yorkshire until 1974, but from 1974 to 2023 was in the Selby District of the shire county of North Yorkshire. South Duffield is situated 3 miles north of Long Drax.
Knedlington
Hamlet
Photo: Paul Harrop, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Knedlington is a small hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Asselby, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 1 mile west of the market town of Howden and lies to the west of the B1228 road. Knedlington is situated 3 miles east of Long Drax.
Long Drax
- Categories: human settlement, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Selby District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.748° or 53° 44′ 53″ northLongitude
-0.9683° or 0° 58′ 6″ westPopulation
109Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)Open location code
9C5XP2XJ+6MOpenStreetMap ID
node 756394661OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
7301621Wikidata ID
Q2264961
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Long Drax” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Long Drax”
- Dutch: “Long Drax”
- French: “Long Drax”
- Irish: “Long Drax”
- Ladin: “Long Drax”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Long Drax”
- Polish: “Long Drax”
- Slovenian: “Long Drax”
- Swedish: “Long Drax”
- Turkish: “Long Drax”
- “Long Drax”
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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 “Long Drax”. Photo: Glyn Drury, CC BY-SA 2.0.