Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for THORNTON

THORNTON, a parish, with three townships, in Pocklington district, E. R. Yorkshire; 4 miles SW of Pocklington r. station. Post town, Pocklington, under York. Acres, 6,540. Real property, £6,165. Pop., 851. Houses, 169. The manor belongs to Col. Wyndham. There is a cotton mill. The living is a vicarage, united with Allerthorpe, in the diocese of York. Value, £300.* Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is old.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a parish, with three townships"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Thornton AP/Ch/CP       Pocklington RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Thornton

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