THIXENDALE is a township, small village, and together with Raisthorpe and Burdale township, forms a parish, taken out of that of Wharram Percy, and is 2 miles south-west from Burdale station on the Malton and Driffield branch of the North Eastern railway, 10 south-east from Malton and 10 north from Pocklington, in the Howdefishire division of the Riding, petty sessional division of Wilton Beacon, Pocklington union and county court district, wapentake of Buckrose, rural deanery of Pocklington, archdeaconry of the East Riding and diocese of York. The church of St. Mary the Virgin, erected by Sir Tatton Sykes bart. in 1870, and consecrated in 1871, is an edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch, south aisle, western baptistery and a central turret containing one bell: all the windows are stained, and there are sittings for 150 persons: in the churchyard, entered through a lych gate of stone, is a cross, erected from designs by the late G. E. Street esq. R.A. The register dates from the year 1871. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £200, with residence, in the gift of Sir Tatton Sykes bart. and held since 1912 by the Rev. Herbert Congreve Horne, of Oriel College, Oxford. There is a Wesleyan chapel here. Sir Tatton Sykes bart. D.L. of Sledmere, who is lord of the manor, the Hon. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood M.P. of Garrowby, Bishop Wilton, and the Messrs. Fairbank are the principal landowners. The soil is principally chalk; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are barley, oats and turnips. The area is 3,812 acres; rateable value, £2,051; the population in 1911 was: township, 218; parish, 254.

Public Elementary School, Thixendale (mixed), erected in 1876, for 70 children; average attendance, 46.