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{{Infobox UK place
|country =England
|official_name =Tixover
|region=East Midlands
|static_image_name=TixoverChurch(ColinPark)Aug2006.jpg
|static_image_caption=[[St Luke's Church, Tixover]]
|area_footnotes=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_table_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_AREA_A&u_id=10104403&c_id=10001043&add=Y |title=A vision of Britain through time |accessdate=21 March 2009 |publisher=University of Portsmouth}}</ref>
|area_total_sq_mi =1.32
| population = 174
| population_ref = [[United Kingdom Census 2001|2001 Census]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rutland.gov.uk/ppimageupload/Image27657.PDF |title=Rutland Civil Parish Populations |accessdate=21 March 2009 |publisher=Rutland County Council |date=2001 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012204902/http://www.rutland.gov.uk/ppimageupload/Image27657.PDF |archivedate=12 October 2007 }}</ref>
|population_density={{convert|132|/sqmi|/km2|abbr=on}}
|os_grid_reference=SK975003
|coordinates = {{coord|52.592|-0.561|display=inline,title}}
|post_town=STAMFORD
|postcode_district =PE9
|postcode_area=PE
|dial_code=01780
|constituency_westminster=[[Rutland and Melton (UK Parliament constituency)|Rutland and Melton]]
|london_distance={{convert|79|mi}} [[Boxing the compass|SSE]]
|unitary_england=[[Rutland]]
|lieutenancy_england=[[Rutland]]
|shire_county=[[Rutland]]
|website=
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'''Tixover''' is a small village and [[civil parish]] in [[Rutland]]. The population of the [[civil parish]] at the 2001 census was 174, falling to 163 at the 2011 census.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11129747&c=Tixover&d=16&e=62&g=6384745&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1466948452766&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|accessdate=26 June 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}</ref>
The village's name means 'ridge with young [[goat]]s'. The second element derives from either the [[Old English]] 'ofer' and 'ora', which both mean ridge.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Rutland/Tixover|title=Key to English Place-names}}</ref>
The parish is on  the [[River Welland]] which is the county boundary with Northamptonshire. Most of the houses in the parish are east of the [[A47 road]]. [[St Luke's Church, Tixover|St Luke's Church]], near the River Welland, now stands about 3/4 mile from the village. The church is a Grade II* listed building.<ref name=nhl>{{NHLE |num= 1178264|desc= Church of St. Luke/St. Mary Magdalen |accessdate= 8 January 2020}}</ref>
Tixover Grange, west of the A47, was home to the residential school named after [[Wilfred Pickles]] from 1955<ref>[http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=39924 Opening of Wilfred Pickles' School for Spastics] British Pathe newsreel 1955</ref> to the 1980s.  Tixover House is now a care home, run by Barchester Healthcare.<ref>[http://www.barchester.com/Care-Home/Tixover-House-Care-Home/Overview/330/127 Barchester Healthcare Ltd]</ref>
Tixover Quarry is a popular off-road driving centre, which is used by ''Land Rover Owner Magazine'' for vehicle tests and photo shoots.{{cn|date=July 2020}}
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==External links==
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* [http://www.muddywheels.com/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album09 View some photos of Tixover Quarry]
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[[Category:Villages in Rutland]]
[[Category:Civil parishes in Rutland]]
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