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The Ancient Parish of THORNTON STEWARD
[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"THORNTON STEWARD, a parish in the wapentake of Hang West, and liberty of Richmondshire; 3 miles E. of Middleham. The church is a neat Gothic structure, dedicated to St. Oswald; the living is a vicarage, in the patronage of the Bishop of Chester. This village is pleasantly situated in Wensleydale, on the north side of the river Ure. In 1815, there was erected, by George Horn, Esq. of this place, a neat school house, endowed with £10. per annum, for the education of the poor children belonging to the parish. Pop. 265."
"DANBY, in the parish of Thornton Steward, wapentake of Hang West; 1½ miles NW. of Thornton Steward, 2 miles E. of Middleham. Danby hall is an extensive stone building apparently of great antiquity."
"DANBY HALL, (the seat of Simon Thomas Scrope, Esq.) in the township and parish of Thornton-Steward; 1¼ miles WNW. of Thornton Steward, 2 miles from Middleham, 4½ from Leyburn.
The Scropes of Danby have survived every other branch of that illustrious name. -Whitaker"
[Description(s) edited mainly from various 19th century sources by Colin Hinson. ©2010]
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- Please see Christine Amsden's Census pages for the following Census transcriptions:
- Thornton Steward: 1841, 1901
- Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
- St. Oswald's Church, Thornton Steward (view 1).
- St. Oswald's Church, Thornton Steward (view 2).
- Internal view looking down the nave
- The font and cover
- Transcript of the entry for Thornton Steward in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Thornton Steward.
- The List of Vicars in St. Oswald's Church, Thornton Steward.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Baines's Directory of 1823, of the North Riding.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Bulmers Directory of 1890. of the North Riding.
- There is further information about this parish from the National Gazetteer 1868, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1835, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Bulmer's 1890 History and Directory of the North Riding.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Thornton Steward to another place.
- For a detailed map of this parish see this parish boundaries map.
- For a more detailed map of the parishes in the riding please see the Yorkshire parish maps page.
- For a more detailed map of the county please see the Yorkshire map page.
- Here is a map showing the wapentakes for the county.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SE178861 (Lat/Lon: 54.270248, -1.728185), Thornton Steward which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- The World War I Roll of Honour in St. Oswald's Church, Thornton Steward.
- This parish is covered by the following Society: