What is "flaxby"

Flaxby is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is close to the A1 road and east of Knaresborough. Flaxby was once part of the wapentake of Claro. It is also part of the ecclesiastical parish of Goldsborough (St Mary).

In 1994, an Early Iron Age farmstead of the 7th–6th centuries BC was discovered by archaeologists, but the site was abandoned until the late Roman period.