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
Drax power station Selby Coalfield discovery in 1967 the Board would build three large power stations to use its coal. These were; an expansion of the station at Ferrybridge, a new station at Eggborough, and the biggest being Drax. In 1983/84 Drax was presented with the Hinton Cup, the CEGB's ""good house keeping trophy"". The award was commissioned by Sir Christopher Hinton, the first chairman of the CEGB. Authority to carry out preparatory works was granted in December 1964, leading to full permission in March 1966, on the basis that the station would be designed to accommodate six 660 MW units, but that