Thirsk, a town in the North Riding of Yorkshire, in the Vale of Mowbray, on the Cod Beck, an affluent of the Swale, 23 miles NNW. of York. It has a fine Perpendicular church, and carries on manufactures of agricultural implements and saddlery. Thirsk returned two members to parliament till 1832, and then one till 1885. Pop. 3164. See W. Grainge, The Vale of Mowbray (1859).
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