Thrintoft is a village and

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in the Hambleton district of

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, England. It is situated close to the

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, west of

Northallerton Northallerton ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Vale of Mowbray and at the northern end of the Vale of York. It had a population of 16,832 in the 2011 census, an increase ...

. Thrintoft is mentioned in the

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as being in the possession of

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. One of his descendants, Roger de Lascelles, gifted the village to St Mary's Abbey in York around 1146. The name derives from

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and is registered in the Domesday Book as ''Tirnetofte''. It is believed to mean the ''thorn-bush by (or in) the field''. The Chapel at Thrintoft - geograph

Historically in the parish of

Ainderby Steeple Ainderby Steeple is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. Ainderby Steeple is situated on the A684 approximately south-west of the County Town of Northallerton, and to the immediate east of Morton- ...

, which lies to the south, it became its own parish in 1866 and now contains the hamlet of

Little Langton Little Langton is a hamlet and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The population of the hamlet was estimated at 50 in 2015. As the population remained less than 100 at the 2011 census, details were included in the civil parish of Thrintof ...

. Whilst the parish has a population of 185,

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estimated that the population of the village was 140 at the 2011 census and remained at that number in 2015. The village is recorded as having a corn mill in 1539, which led to the stream flowing south west through the settlement into the River Swale being named ''Mill Beck''. The chapel of St Mary Magdalen, now a barn, was built during the 13th to 15th centuries. It was endowed in 1253 as a chantry chapel connected to

Jervaulx Abbey Jervaulx Abbey in East Witton, 14 miles north-west of the city of Ripon, was one of the great Cistercian abbeys of Yorkshire, England, dedicated to St Mary in 1156. It is a Grade I listed building. The place name ''Jervaulx'' is first atteste ...

and is a grade II* listed building. The chapel is the only surviving building from Thrintoft Grange. The village has a pub, ''The New Inn''.

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