Thornton in Lonsdale Yorkshire Family History Guide

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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 registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1576
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1689

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Thornton in Lonsdale Parish Registers

Thornton-in-Lonsdale Parish Registers 1576-1812

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].

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