Thirsk
Thirsk is a market town in North Yorkshire, 23 miles north of York, with a population of 5900 in 2021. It's best known for its racecourse and as the home of the veterinarian and author known as James Herriot.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 9,950 residents
- Description: market town and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England
- Also known as: “Thirsk, North Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The World of James Herriot and Ritz Cinema.
The World of James Herriot
Museum
Photo: Peter K Burian, CC BY-SA 4.0.
World of James Herriot Ltd is a visitor attraction in the former Thirsk home and veterinary surgery of author James Herriot. Displays include recreations of James Herriot’s 1940s flat; depictions of rural life and veterinary practice at the time, together with sets and props used for the 1978 BBC All Creatures Great and Small television series based on his books.
Ritz Cinema
Movie theater
Photo: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Ritz Cinema on Westgate, Sowerby, North Yorkshire, England is a small cinema run by volunteers. The building was originally the Mechanics' Institute for Thirsk and Sowerby, but was converted into a cinema in 1912.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thornton-le-Street.
Thornton-le-Street
Hamlet
Photo: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thornton-le-Street is a village and parochial and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is part of the civil parish of Thornton-le-Moor and Thornton-le-Street for District purposes. Thornton-le-Street is situated 3 miles north of Thirsk.
Thirsk
- Categories: market town, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Hambleton, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.2328° or 54° 13′ 58″ northLongitude
-1.3424° or 1° 20′ 33″ westPopulation
9,950Elevation
121 feet (37 metres)IATA airport code
XTKUnited Nations Location Code
GB TSKOpen location code
9C6W6MM5+42OpenStreetMap ID
node 21307362OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2636021Wikidata ID
Q641274
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Thirsk” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Thirsk”
- Bengali: “ত্রিস্ক”
- Cebuano: “Thirsk”
- Chinese: “图尔斯克”
- Chinese: “圖爾斯克”
- Chinese: “瑟斯克”
- Czech: “Thirsk”
- Dutch: “Thirsk”
- French: “Thirsk”
- German: “Thirsk”
- Gujarati: “થિર્સ્ક”
- Irish: “Thirsk”
- Italian: “Thirsk”
- Japanese: “サースク”
- Kannada: “ಥಾರ್ಸ್ಕ್”
- Korean: “서스크”
- Ladin: “Thirsk”
- Lithuanian: “Tirskas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thirsk”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Þræsc, Norþ Þriðing”
- Persian: “تریسک”
- Polish: “Thirsk”
- Portuguese: “Thirsk”
- Romanian: “Thirsk”
- Russian: “Тирск”
- Slovak: “Thirsk”
- South Azerbaijani: “تریسک”
- Spanish: “Thirsk, Yorkshire del Norte”
- Spanish: “Thirsk”
- Swedish: “Thirsk”
- Tamil: “திரஸ்க்”
- Telugu: “త్రిస్క్”
- Turkish: “Thirsk”
- Ukrainian: “Тірск”
- Urdu: “تھرسک”
- Urdu: “تھیرسک”
- Volapük: “Thirsk”
- Welsh: “Thirsk”
- “Thirsk”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Thirsk”. Photo: Tim Green, CC BY 2.0.