RAF Dalton

With multiple sites in the UK, Europe and a joint venture in India, Severfield plc is the market-leading structural steelwork Group in the UK and among the biggest in Europe, with a capacity to produce 250,000 tonnes of steelwork per year. Severfield has been involved in numerous high-profile projects including Coal Drops Yard, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, The Shard, Emirates Stadium, and 22 Bishopsgate. The firm has acquired businesses across structural steel market sectors within the UK and Europe, and participates with JSW Group in two Mumbai-based joint ventures: JSW Severfield Structures Ltd and, indirectly, JSW Structural Metal Decking Ltd. In 2023, Severfield announced the acquisition of Voortman Steel Construction Holding BV, headquartered in Rijssen, Netherlands. This addition will allow Severfield to accelerate its European growth strategy and diversify its end markets.

Cod Beck is a river in North Yorkshire, England. It has a catchment area of 209 km2 (81 sq mi). The river extends for 20 miles (32 km) from above Cod Beck Reservoir at Osmotherley on the edge of the North York Moors through Thirsk and on to join the River Swale at Topcliffe.Cod Beck has a long history of flooding Thirsk and a feasibility study completed in April 2005 recommended additional flood defences and upstream storage. In 2011, a proposed flood defence scheme in Thirsk was cancelled due to the Environment Agency having its budget cut by 41%.The name Cod Beck is a derivative of Cold Beck, where beck is smaller than a river; the stream runs deep between banks, so is always fairly cool. Cod fish are not found in fresh water.

Topcliffe Castle (also known as Maiden's Bower) is an abandoned castle located near the village of Topcliffe, North Yorkshire, England.The castle was built at the junction of the River Swale and Cod Beck. A motte and bailey castle was constructed around 1071. Archbishop Geoffrey of York re-fortified the castle in 1173 during the revolt of 1173-74, with William de Stuteville appointed as governor. The Percy family held Topcliffe. Edward III of England spent a few hours resting at the castle in August 1333. The castle appears to have been abandoned during the 14th century. In 1489, on the site of the castle, Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland was slain by an angry mob in regard to higher taxation.

Dalton is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. It is about 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Thirsk and near the A168 road. It mainly consists of farmland as well as an industrial estate. It has a population of 518.

Eldmire with Crakehill is a civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. The population of the parish was estimated at 30 in 2013.There is no village in the parish. The parish consists of a number of scattered houses and farms, including the hamlets of Eldmire and Crakehill on the east bank of the River Swale. Crakehill was mentioned in the Domesday Book (as Crecala). It was joined with the manor of Eldmire (also spelt Elmire) from at least the early 14th century. The two settlements formed a township in the ancient parish of Topcliffe, and became a separate civil parish in 1866.

Topcliffe is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. The village is situated on the River Swale, on the A167 road and close to the A168. It is about 5 miles (8 km) south-west of Thirsk and 11 miles (18 km) south of the county town of Northallerton. It has a population of 1,489. An army barracks, with a Royal Air Force airfield enclosed within, is located to the north of the village.

North Yorkshire is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber and North East regions of England. It borders County Durham to the north, the North Sea to the east, the East Riding of Yorkshire to the south-east, South Yorkshire to the south, West Yorkshire to the south-west, and Cumbria and Lancashire to the west. Northallerton is the county town. The county is the largest in England by land area, at 9,020 km2 (3,480 sq mi), and has a population of 1,158,816. The largest settlements are Middlesbrough (174,700) in the north-east and the city of York (152,841) in the south. Middlesbrough is part of the Teesside built-up area, which extends into County Durham and has a total population of 376,663. The remainder of the county is rural, and the largest towns are Harrogate (73,576) and Scarborough (61,749). For local government purposes the county comprises four unitary authority areas — York, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, and North Yorkshire — and part of a fifth, Stockton-on-Tees. The centre of the county contains a wide plain, called the Vale of Mowbray in the north and Vale of York in the south. The North York Moors lie to the east, and south of them the Vale of Pickering is separated from the main plain by the Howardian Hills. The west of the county contains the Yorkshire Dales, an extensive upland area which contains the source of the River Ouse/Ure and many of its tributaries, which together drain most of the county. The Dales also contain the county's highest point, Whernside, at 2,415 feet (736 m).

Cundall is a village in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is one of the Thankful Villages that suffered no fatalities during World War I.

The Thirsk rail crash occurred on 31 July 1967 at Thirsk, Yorkshire, England on the British Rail East Coast Main Line.

Asenby is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England, with a population of 285 (2001 census), increasing to 311 at the 2011 census. The village is about 5 miles (8 km) south-west of Thirsk and 7 miles (11 km) east of Ripon. It is 12 miles (19 km) south of the County Town of Northallerton on the south bank of the River Swale.

Royal Air Force Topcliffe or RAF Topcliffe (ICAO: EGXZ) is a Royal Air Force station in North Yorkshire, England. It was established as a RAF Bomber Command station in 1940. The British Army took over a large part of the site in 1974 and the airfield became an enclave within Alanbrooke Barracks. The last remaining RAF unit is No. 645 Volunteer Gliding Squadron which operates the Grob Viking T.1 glider.

Fawdington is a hamlet and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. It is on the River Swale and near the A1(M) motorway, 8 miles (13 km) south of Thirsk, and 5 miles (8 km) north-east of Boroughbridge. The population of the parish was estimated at 10 in 2015. The population remained at less than 100 at the 2011 Census. Details were included in the old civil parish of Brafferton, North Yorkshire.The name of the hamlet is generally agreed to derive from a mixture of Old English and Old Norse, with the suffix tūn meaning town. However the first part is in dispute; Ekwall states that it derives from the Old English Falding, meaning the place where animals were folded (brought into a fold), whereas the English Place-Name Society states that it is from Falda, a personal name.