Thimbleby is a small village and civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England, it is in the North Yorks Moors and close to the village of Osmotherley and the Cleveland Way, 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Northallerton.

[1] Thimbleby Hall sits 1 mile north-east of the centre of the village, the estate lies within the North York Moors National Park and was listed in the Domesday Book as the property of the King family of Northallerton Manor.

It was later granted to the Bishops of Durham, when part of the Estate was gifted to Rievaulx Abbey.

In the 1920s the hall was reduced in size, when a complete storey was removed from the centre block.

In June 1838, Thimbleby Lodge was bought by Robert Haynes, a retired slave owner from Barbados, presumably using the slavery compensation he had received from the British government.