The village is linked to Washington Staithes on the north bank of the river, by the Cox Green Footbridge.

Cox Green is from Old English cocc "cock" (crest of a hill) in the plural form coccs (the plural form represented by modern "s").

Due to corruption of the name over the years, the name is similar to the modern surname Cox.

It had a railway station from the 1850s until 1964,[2] which unsurprisingly fell victim to the Beeching Axe.

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