Thorne, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Thorne, a small market and union town, and a parish, in W.R. Yorkshire. The town stands near the river Don, the Stainforth and Keadby Canal, amid a flat but fertile tract, 10 miles NE of Doncaster. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Doncaster, stations on the M.S. & L.R. and N.E.R., two banks, an ancient church, Congregational; New Connexion and Primitive Methodist, Unilarian, and Wesleyan chapels, a Friends' meeting-house, endowed schools with £200 a year, a workhouse, a police station, roperies, timber-yards, wharves, a weekly market on Wednesday, an agricultural show in June, and a cattle fair on the first Monday and Tuesday after 11 Oct. The town is a seat of petty sessions and county courts. The parish includes Waterside, Dykesmarsh, and Moor Ends, and comprises about 12,937 acres (approximate) of land and 129 of water and foreshore; population, 3556. There is a parish council consisting of eleven members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; net valne, £171 with residence. The church is an ancient building in the Late Decorated style, consisting of chancel, with N and S chapels, clerestoried nave with aisles, and an embattled western tower containing eight bells; it was restored in 1860. Part of the parish, known as Thome Moor or Waste, formerly a swampy bog, after being drained, has since 1880 furnished large quantities of peat moss litter, the stripping of which affords employment to 350 hands. Sluices have been made to admit the waters of the rivers Ouse and Don, which deposit rich earthy matter called " warp,'' and by this means the waste is being gradually converted into fertile land.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Thorne St. Nicholas | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Strafforth and Tickhill |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with various Archives, Local Studies, and Family History Societies have the following parish records online for Thorne:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1565-1915 | 1766-1887 | 1565-1930 | 1565-1960 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Thorne from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Thorne (St. Nicholas))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the West Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Thorne are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following West Riding newspapers online: