Drax, North Yorkshire Drax, North Yorkshire Drax is a village and civil parish in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England, about south-east of Selby, best known today as the site of Drax power station. The village had a Community Primary School until its closure in July 2017 and a public house, the Huntsmans Arms. It formerly had another pub, The Star, two village shops, a butchers, petrol station and sub-post office. The butchers shop run by Howard Thomas was closed and converted into a private home, then converted back into a village shop, and closed down again in January 2007. The original
Richard Drax served. He was promoted captain on 10 March 1986. He relinquished his British Army commission on 9 September 1987, thereby retiring after nine years' service as a Coldstreamer. Drax worked at York's "Evening Press" as a reporter in 1991, before joining BBC South where he appeared on both radio and television media, including the daily television news programme "South Today". Selected as a Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate in July 2006, at the general election in May 2010 Drax defeated the incumbent Labour Member of Parliament for South Dorset, Jim Knight, "later" Baron Knight of Weymouth. Drax retained his seat in