Thornton in Lonsdale is a village and
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
in the
Craven District
Craven is a local government district of North Yorkshire, England centred on the market town of Skipton. In 1974, Craven District was formed as the merger of Skipton urban district, Settle Rural District and most of Skipton Rural District, al ...
and ceremonial county of
North Yorkshire
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in
England
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. It is very close to the border with
Cumbria
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and
Lancashire
Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly.
The non-metropolitan county of Lancash ...
and is north of
Ingleton and south-east of
Kirkby Lonsdale
Kirkby Lonsdale () is a town and civil parish in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England, on the River Lune. Historically in Westmorland, it lies south-east of Kendal on the A65. The parish recorded a population of 1,771 in the 2001 ...
, and has a population of 308, falling to 288 at the 2011 Census.
Its main claims to fame are the Marton Arms pub and
St Oswald's Church,
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for '' A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Ho ...
married his first wife at this church in 1885 and held his reception at The Marton Arms before setting off to Ireland on honeymoon. Doyle's mother resided at nearby
Masongill from 1882 to 1917.
History
In 1086 the ''
Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manus ...
'' listed on folio 301v under Craven ''Torntun & in Borch, Orm vi curactes ad geld.'' – that is in ''Thornton in Lonsdale with
Burrow-with-Burrow Orm has circa 720 acres of plough-land to be taxed''. This
manor belonged to Orm, one of
the family of Norse Noblemen who held the most land in Northern England. All estates would also include grazing land but since only arable land was tallied their total area can only be induced.
Historical parish
Because the parish of Thornton in Lonsdale was in the
Lonsdale Hundred, a region more
ancient than the county of Lancashire, it lay across two counties. A strip down the left side of the parish including
Ireby was in Lancashire. The Lancashire area was about long and its width tapered from about to
about .
[http://maps.familysearch.org/ Family Search, Historical Maps, England Jurisdictions 1851] However the majority of the parish, including Thornton and
Burton in Lonsdale
Burton in Lonsdale is a village and civil parish in the Craven District of North Yorkshire, England, close to the border with Lancashire and Cumbria. It is in Lonsdale (the River Lune valley and its tributaries). The parish is approximately 1, ...
, was in
Yorkshire
Yorkshire ( ; abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county in northern England and by far the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its large area in comparison with other English counties, functions have ...
.
References
External links
St Oswald's Church, Thornton in Lonsdale
Villages in North Yorkshire
Civil parishes in North Yorkshire
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