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{{Short description|Village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place
| country                  = England
| coordinates              = {{coord|53.9585|-1.0365|display=inline,title}}
| label_position           = top
| official_name            = Osbaldwick
| static_image_name        = Osbaldwick1.JPG
| static_image_caption     = Osbaldwick village
| population               = 2,902
| population_ref           = (2011)
| unitary_england          = [[City of York]]
| civil_parish             = Osbaldwick
| region                   = Yorkshire and the Humber
| lieutenancy_england      = [[North Yorkshire]]
| constituency_westminster = [[York Outer (UK Parliament constituency)|York Outer]]
| post_town                = YORK
| postcode_area            = YO
| postcode_district        = YO10
| dial_code                =
| os_grid_reference        = SE634518 
}}
'''Osbaldwick''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɒ|z|b|ə|l|d|w|ɪ|k|}} {{respell|OZ|bəld|wick}}) is a village and [[civil parish]] in the [[unitary authority]] of the [[City of York]] in [[North Yorkshire]], England. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 census was 2,902.<ref>{{NOMIS2011|id=E04000614|title=Osbaldwick Parish|access-date=21 August 2024}}</ref> It has been in existence since at least the 11th century, and was declared a conservation area in 1978. It is the burial place of the nun [[Mary Ward (nun)|Mary Ward]].

==History==

It is mentioned three times in the ''[[Domesday Book]]'' as ''Osboldewic''.<ref>{{OpenDomesday|SE6351|osbaldwick|Osbaldwick|accessdate=5 January 2013}}</ref> It is named after [[Osbald of Northumbria|Osbald]], an [[earl]] in the kingdom of [[Northumbria]]. At that time the manor was assessed with the city of York and the lands held by the Church of St Peter, York. It was the first Norman Archbishop of York that created the office of ''[[Prebendary|Prebend]] of Osbaldwick''. The earliest mention of an incumbent of this office was of ''Richard le Brun'' in 1270. The office was de facto lord of the manor of the village. In 1852, the Church was allowed to sell off land and Osbaldwick Manor was sold to a Thomas Samuel Watkinson, later the [[Lord Mayor of York]].<ref name="History">{{cite web |title=Parishes: Osbaldwick {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/north/vol2/pp164-167 |via=British History Online |access-date=21 August 2024}}</ref>

The village was historically part of the [[North Riding of Yorkshire]] until 1974. It was then a part of the district of [[Ryedale]] in [[North Yorkshire]] from 1974 until 1996. Since 1996 it has been part of the City of York unitary authority.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of Osbaldwick, in York and North Riding {{!}} Map and description|url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13847|access-date=2020-11-28|website=visionofbritain.org.uk}}</ref>

==Governance==

The village is within the York Outer UK Parliament constituency. It is also part of the Osbaldwick and Derwent Ward within York Unitary Authority.<ref>{{cite web |title=Election Maps |url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/?x=463329&y=451663&z=6&bnd1=wmc&bnd2=utw&labels=off |website=ordnancesurvey.co.uk |access-date=21 August 2024 |quote=On the left of the screen is the "Boundary" tab; click this and activate either wards or Westminster Constituencies (or both), however, only two functions can be active at any one time.}}</ref>

==Geography==
[[File:Osbaldwick Beck - geograph.org.uk - 798834.jpg|thumb|left|Osbaldwick Beck]]
Osbaldwick is now effectively a suburb of York, about {{convert|2|mi|km}} east of the city. The village proper lies mostly along one street called Osbaldwick Village. Newer housing surrounds this and Osbaldwick is now effectively bounded on three sides by the [[A1079 road|A1079]] to the south, the [[A64 road|A64]] that forms part of York's [[Ring Road]]) to the east and by green-belt land to the north. To the west, newer housing merges into the [[Tang Hall]] district.

Light industrial/trading estates exist to the east of the village heading towards [[Murton, York|Murton]]) and along Osbaldwick Link Road which links it to the [[A1079 road|A1079]]. A new (2006) housing development built in 2006, known as Murton Gardens, was built by Wimpey Homes on the link road on the site of a farm building and surrounding fields. A development known as [[Derwenthorpe]] was granted planning permission on 10 May 2007 for the green-belt land north of the village. Some farmland also exists between Osbaldwick and Murton.

Osbaldwick Beck runs through the village and is part of the tributary system of the [[River Foss]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Tang Hall Bk/Old Foss Bk catch, trib of River Foss {{!}} Catchment Data Explorer {{!}} Catchment Data Explorer |url=https://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-planning/WaterBody/GB104027063500 |website=environment.data.gov.uk |access-date=21 August 2024}}</ref>

===Demography===

The 1881 UK census recorded the population as 340.<ref name="Bulmers">{{cite book|title=Bulmer's Topography, History and Directory (Private and Commercial) of North Yorkshire 1890 |pages=770, 771|date=2002|orig-date=1890 |publisher= S&N Publishing|isbn= 1-86150-299-0}}</ref> According to the 2001 UK census the parish had a population of 2,726, of whom 2,299 were over the age of sixteen years and 1,115 of those were in employment. There were 1,200 dwellings of which 364 were detached.<ref>{{NOMIS2001|id=00FF023|title=Osbaldwick Parish|access-date=21 August 2024}}</ref>
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==Transport==

Between 1913 and 1926 Osbaldwick was served by a station on the [[Derwent Valley Light Railway]].<ref>{{cite web |title=LNER Encyclopedia: The North Eastern Railway: Derwent Valley Light Railway |url=https://www.lner.info/co/NER/derwent/derwent.php |website=lner.info |access-date=22 August 2024}}</ref> This line remained open to freight until 1981, and in 1992, [[Sustrans]] converted the trackbed into National Cycle Route 66 from the village into York.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sustrans.org.uk/what-we-do/national-cycle-network/route-numbering-system/route-66|title=Sustrans Route 66|access-date=5 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809104629/http://www.sustrans.org.uk/what-we-do/national-cycle-network/route-numbering-system/route-66|archive-date=9 August 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Suggitt |first1=Gordon |title=Lost railways of North and East Yorkshire |date=2007 |publisher=Countryside Books |location=Newbury |isbn=978-1-85306-918-5 |page=130}}</ref>
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Osbaldwick is also served by two bus routes operated by [[First York]] on their service 6 between Clifton Moor and University Campus East and [[Transdev York]] on their service 20 between Rawcliffe and Osbaldwick (Limited service frequency).

==Landmarks==

The village is home to Osbaldwick Hall, a Grade II Listed Building,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-328683-osbaldwick-hall-osbaldwick-|title=Listed Building|access-date=5 January 2013}}</ref> and to the 12th century [[St Thomas' Church, Osbaldwick|St Thomas' Church]].

Eliza Raine (1793–1860) is buried in St. Thomas cemetery. Raine was the first partner to the celebrated English landowner and diarist [[Anne Lister]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The parish of St Thomas Osbaldwick with St James Murton {{!}} About the Parish {{!}} St Thomas's |url=https://www.osbaldwickandmurtonchurches.org.uk/parish/st_thomas/eliza-raine.htm|access-date=2020-06-07|website=osbaldwickandmurtonchurches.org.uk}}</ref>

==Facilities==
[[File:BandQ - geograph.org.uk - 338271.jpg|thumb|right|[[B&Q]] Superstore]]
Education in the village is provided by Osbaldwick Primary School,<ref>{{Official website|http://www.osbaldwickprimaryschool.co.uk/|name=Osbaldwick Primary School}}</ref> and most pupils transfer after Year 6 to [[Archbishop Holgate's School]].<ref>{{Official website|http://www.archbishopholgates.org/|name=Archbishop Holgate's School}}</ref>

The village post office closed in July 2003.<ref>{{cite news |title=Village loses post office |url=https://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/6663410.village-loses-post-office/ |access-date=21 August 2024 |work=Gazette & Herald |date=13 November 2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Anger at N Yorks post offices closure revelation |url=https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/7906980.anger-at-n-yorks-post-offices-closure-revelation/ |access-date=21 August 2024 |work=York Press |date=23 May 2003}}</ref>

===Derwent Arms===
[[Image:Derwent Arms.jpg|thumb|right|The Derwent Arms]]
The Derwent Arms, in the old part of the village, was built in 1823 when it was known as The Black Bull. It consisted of the main pub house and a stable for two horses with a granary over it. To the right were two cow houses with a small orchard and pig pen behind. In front of this was another outbuilding. In the early years the pub had a wash house. Later, a long cattle shed for eight to nine cows was added onto the west side of the stable.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wilde|first=David|title=Osbaldwick: A suburban village|editor=David Wilkinson}}</ref> It was later renamed The Derwent Arms after the [[Derwent Valley Light Railway]] which used to run through the village. It currently consists of a [[Stucco|rendered]] brick building with the public rooms on the ground floor and accommodation for the owners above. The pub has a large field which is used to host community events such as the village fair and a [[Guy Fawkes Night|bonfire night]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cooper |first1=Joe |title=Plan put forward to save York pub – just 350m away from another that has been left to rot |url=https://yorkmix.com/plan-put-forward-to-save-york-pub-just-350m-away-from-another-that-has-been-left-to-rot/ |access-date=21 August 2024 |work=YorkMix |date=5 April 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Remember, remember |url=https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/7918884.remember-remember/ |access-date=21 August 2024 |work=York Press |date=31 October 2002}}</ref>

The Magnet pub, near the newer houses on Osbaldwick Lane, closed in 2018.<ref>{{cite web |title=Heritage pub to become homes |url=https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/19129628.york-pub-magnet-osbaldwick-become-homes/ |website=York Press |access-date=9 November 2023 |first=Chloe |last= Laversuch|date=2 March 2021}}</ref>

==Religion==
The [[Church of England]] [[parish church]] dedicated to St Thomas originally dates from the 12th century. Windows in the north wall date from the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries. The church has been reordered and extended on a number of occasions, notably in 1877 by [[John Oldrid Scott]]<ref>{{cite web|title=About the Parish|url=http://www.osbaldwickandmurtonchurches.org.uk/parish/st_thomas/index.htm|website=The Parish of Osbaldwick with Merton}}</ref> and by later architects in both 1967 and 2005.

The Rev. William Ball Wright, noted genealogist and one of the first [[United Society|SPG]] [[Anglican Church in Japan|Anglican missionaries to Japan]], served as vicar of the parish from 1903 to 1912.<ref>{{cite news|title=Lost Clergymen: Mystery of 400 Clerics, Missing Yorks Vicar|url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NZH19130405.2.143.22|volume=L|issue=15269|newspaper=The New Zealand Herald|date=5 April 1913}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Rev. W.B. Wright of Tokyo|url=http://www.19thcenturyphotos.com/Rev-W.B.-Wright-of-Tokyo-123334.htm|website=The Library of Nineteenth-Century Photography}}</ref>

A window in the church is a memorial to former Sheriff and Lord Mayor of York, James Barber.<ref name="Bulmers"/> It is the burial place of the Roman Catholic nun [[Mary Ward (nun)|Mary Ward]], who founded the Institute of the [[Blessed Virgin Mary]], also known as the [[Sisters of Loreto]]. The Church registers show that a Dorothy Paston Bedingfield, a superior of the order, was also buried here.<ref name="History"/>

==References==
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[[Category:Villages in North Yorkshire]]
[[Category:Civil parishes in North Yorkshire]]
[[Category:Villages and areas in the City of York]]