Thornton in Lonsdale Yorkshire Family History Guide
Thornton in Lonsdale is an Ancient Parish mostly in Yorkshire and partly in Lancashire.
Other places in the parish include: Westhouse, Thornton in Lonsdale with Masongill, and Masongill.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1576
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1689
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
THORNTON-IN-LONSDALE, a parish, with three townships, partly in Lancaster district, Lancashire, but chiefly in Settle district, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Ingleton railway, 1 mile WNW of Ingleton. Post town, Ingleton, under Lancaster.
Acres, 13,242. Rated property, £10,260. Pop., 1,151. Houses, 237. The property is much subdivided. T. Scar is a picturesque cliff, about 300 feet high; and T. Force is a fine cascade, about 90 feet in fall. Yordas Cave, and spots around it, present romantic features.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £120. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Worcester. The church is old.
The p. curacy of Burton-in-Lonsdale is a separate benefice. Charities, £51.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Settle
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the
- Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries – Lonsdale
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Clapham
- Poor Law Union: Settle
- Hundred: Staincliff and Ewcross
- Province: York