Carlton, Selby

Holy Family Catholic High School is a coeducational Roman Catholic secondary school located in Carlton in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England.The school has capacity for 450 pupils. Currently 444 pupils attend the school.The school was rated as "Requires Improvement" by Ofsted in September 2019. Only 8% of students achieve the English Baccalaureate, compared with 43% of students in the Local Authority Area as a whole. However, performance in core GCSEs is in line with the local average, with 46% of Holy Family pupils achieving grade 5 or above in their English and maths GCSEs compared with 47% in the Local Authority.Previously a voluntary aided school administered by North Yorkshire County Council, in March 2021 Holy Family Catholic High School converted to academy status. The school is now sponsored by the Bishop Konstant Catholic Academy Trust.The school offers GCSEs and Cambridge Nationals as programmes of study for pupils.

Carlton Towers railway station served the village of Carlton, Selby, England from 1885 to 1959 on the Hull and Barnsley Railway.

Snaith railway station is a railway station that serves the market town of Snaith in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is located 26 miles (42 km) east of Leeds railway station on the Pontefract Line, between Knottingley and Goole. The former five trains each way per day service of the late 1980s (see British Rail National Passenger Timetables from May 1988–90) was cut in half in 1991 (due to shortage of rolling stock) and again in 2004, leaving only a residual "Parliamentary" minimum timetable in operation east of Knottingley to avoid the need for statutory closure proceedings - a situation that remains unchanged to this day.

Snaith Priory was a Benedictine priory in Snaith, within the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The priory was located at the Church of St Lawrence in Snaith, which has been a Grade I listed building since 1967. It was founded shortly after 1101, and dissolved in 1539.

Snaith is a market town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, close to the River Aire and the M62 and M18 motorways, 7 miles (11 km) west of Goole, 10 miles (16 km) east of Knottingley, 8 miles (13 km) south of Selby, 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Howden and 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Thorne.

Camblesforth is a village and civil parish in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England. According to the 2001 Census the civil parish had a population of 1,526, increasing to 1,568 at the 2011 Census. The village is 5 miles (8 km) south of Selby and 7 miles (11 km) west of Goole. It was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974.It has a Methodist Chapel (1894) which is used for Parish Council and other meetings, and two public houses, the Comus Inn and the Black Dog.

The Snaith School is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Snaith in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The school was founded in 1899. As of 2014 the school had a pupil count of 910. Also as of the 2014 ofsted report the school was rated: Good. the Percentage of pupils who attained five GCSEs grade A* to C including English and mathematics in 2014 was 66%.

West Cowick is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, situated approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) south-east of Snaith. It is just to the south of the A1041 road and north of the M62 motorway. It was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. It forms part of the civil parish of Snaith and Cowick. To the east of the village is the late 17th-century Grade I listed Cowick Hall the former seat of the Viscounts Downe which is now the headquarters of Croda International. In the late 13th to early 16th centuries AD, West Cowick was one of the production sites of a type of Medieval ceramic known as Humber ware.

East Cowick is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, situated approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Snaith. It lies on the A1041 road and just north of the M62 motorway. It was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. It forms part of the civil parish of Snaith and Cowick.

Drax power station is a large biomass power station in Drax, North Yorkshire, England, capable of co-firing petroleum coke. It has a 2.6 GW capacity for biomass and had a 1.29 GW capacity for coal that was retired in 2021. Its name comes from the nearby village of Drax. It is situated on the River Ouse between Selby and Goole. Its generating capacity of 3,906 megawatts (MW), which includes the shut down coal units, is the highest of any power station in the United Kingdom, providing about 6% of the United Kingdom's electricity supply.Opened in 1974 and extended in the 1980s, the station was initially operated by the Central Electricity Generating Board. Since privatisation in 1990 ownership has changed several times, and it is operated by the Drax Group. Completed in 1986, it was the newest coal-fired power station in England until it closed in 2021. Flue gas desulphurisation equipment was fitted between 1988 and 1995. The high and low pressure turbines were replaced between 2007 and 2012. By 2010, the station was co-firing biomass. In 2012, the company announced plans to convert three generating units to solely biomass, burning 7.5 million tonnes imported from the United States and Canada. This work was completed in 2016 and a fourth unit was converted in 2018. The company planned to convert its remaining two coal units to Combined Cycle Gas Turbine units and 200 MW battery storage. However, those two coal units were shut in 2021 without converting them to biomass.

Barlow railway station was a railway station that served the village of Barlow in North Yorkshire, England from 1912 to 1964 via the Selby to Goole line. The area is now known as the site of Barlow Common Nature Reserve.

Drax Abbey railway station was a station on the Hull and Barnsley Railway, and served the village of Drax in North Yorkshire, England. The station opened on 27 July 1885 and closed on 1 January 1932.