Thornton le Street Yorkshire Family History Guide
Thornton le Street is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: North Kilvington.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1598
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1669
Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Kirkby Wiske
- Thirsk
- South Kilvington
- North Otterington with Thornton le Moor and Thornton le Beans
- South Otterington
- Leake
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
THORNTON-LE-STREET, a parish, with two townships, in Thirsk district, N. R. Yorkshire; 3 miles N by W of Thirsk r. station. Post town, Thirsk. Acres. 2,750. Real property, £3,125. Pop., 241. Houses, 44. The manor belongs to the Meynells. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, not reported. Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. Sir R. Lester, the physician, was a native.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Thirsk
- Probate Court: Pre-1836 – Court of the Peculiar of the Bishop of Durham and the Dean and Chapter of Allerton and Allertonshire, Post-1835 – Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: Cleveland
- Poor Law Union: Thirsk
- Hundred: Allertonshire
- Province: York