Your local guide to getting around Thirsk & North Yorkshire

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Bus services in Thirsk

Thirsk has a reasonable daytime bus network for a small town — but it thins out fast in the evening, on Sundays, and once you're off the main routes.

Thirsk Market Place and its stone clock tower
Thirsk Market Place and its stone clock tower · 2019Colin Park · Credit

Routes from the Market Place

For local timetable links, see Thirsk Tourist Information’s bus pages. Check your travel date, stop and last return service with the current timetable before setting off.

30 / 30SE / 30X Coastliner

York – Rawcliffe – Skelton corridor

32 Coastliner

Thirsk – Sowerby Gateway circular

59 Hodgsons

Thirsk – Coxwold

60 / 60A Hodgsons

Thirsk – Great Thirkleby – Thirsk

70 / X70 Hodgsons

Ripon – Northallerton, via Thirsk

147 / 150 Hodgsons

Thirsk – Ripon

153 North Yorkshire Council

Thirsk – Northallerton

M5 Moorsbus Seasonal

Summer Sat/Sun/Bank Holidays only, to Helmsley via Coxwold — 3 April to 27 September 2026

Timetables change — check Traveline or the operator directly before you travel.

Where the gaps are

  • Sundays and bank holidays: no regular bus service at all, except the seasonal Moorsbus (April–September, Saturdays, Sundays and bank holidays only).
  • Evenings: daytime-only services on most routes — don't plan on catching a bus back from an evening out.
  • Many surrounding villages: don't have a daily service even on weekdays, and the Hillside Villages (Borrowby, Boltby, Felixkirk, and others) have none at all beyond the school run — see Villages.

💡 Local Tip

If your journey falls into any of the gaps above — a Sunday, an evening, or a village without a daily service — plan on a taxi from the start rather than checking the timetable and hoping. It saves standing at a stop that simply won't see a bus that day.

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