England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Thornton in Craven, the suffix required to distinguish from the many Thorntons in the county, lies in the west of Yorkshire forming a stretch of the county's border with neighbouring Lancashire. Thornton in Craven is located roughly 6 miles west of the town of Skipton and sits on the A56 road which connects Skipton with Burnley. Thornton in Craven is a largely linear village which has most properties either lining the A56 and side lanes or along the B6252 headed toward Barnoldswick. Thornton in Craven is a much diminished place, it was granted a market by King Edward I but competition from Skipton and the towns of Lancashire eroded that status and Thornton in Craven lapsed to become merely a village. Nowadays it is indeed not the largest settlement within the parish that honour falling to Earby about 2 miles to the south which has grown from a small riverside village way up its valley sides as a consequence of industrialisation for cotton mills. Thornton in Craven is primarily an upland parish with early gazetteers estimating that almost 90% of its acreage was set to pastures, richer with cattle in the valleys whilst upland pastures held largely sheep. The extractive industries were also important in the parish with the local limestone quarried for both building stone and for lime burning. Thornton in Craven is nowadays also a way-station along Britain's first National Trail, The Pennine Way on its long journey from Derbyshire into Scotland, Thornton in Craven provides welcome overnight stays for the weary hiker. Other visitors to the area come for the excellent fishing with trout a speciality. Modern developments have come and some stayed, the Leeds to Liverpool Canal passes through the northern portion of the parish whilst formerly a railway line skirted the village to its south en route from Skipton to Burnley, yhr latter now closed. Thornton in Craven is drained eastwards by Earby Beck which joins the major Dales river of the Aire at Skipton, the Aire meets with all of Yorkshire's other Dales rivers in the Vale of York before reaching the North Sea through the Humber Estuary. Thornton in Craven is sited at 160 metres above the sea with Earby some 30 metres lower, the Pennine range is split by the Aire Gap but to the southeast hills still reach 388 metres on Pinhaw Beacon and 363 metres on Bleara Moor. Thornton in Craven parish was extensive, as upland parishes normally are, covering a little over 5.300 acres which would have supported a population of around 2,400 parishioners. Whilst Thornton in Craven is mentioned in Domesday Book as a shared holding of William of Percy & Roger of Poitou it was described as "waste", a term used to describe undeveloped land with no assets recorded. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 |
25th May 1754 - 9th June 1803 |
North Yorkshire Record Office - Northallerton - Reference
- PR/TNA/1/7 |
Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns &
Marriage register with 4 entries per page |
Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low
likelihood of misreads |
None |
2 | 18th September 1803 - 3rd December 1812 | North Yorkshire Record Office - Northallerton - Reference - PR/TNA/1/8 | Plain, ruled book containing combined Banns & Marriages | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
3 | 1st March 1813 - 8th May 1837 | North Yorkshire Record Office - Northallerton - Reference - PR/TNA/1/8 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Marton
in Craven St Peter
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Marton
in Craven St Peter
Broughton in Craven All Saints |
Broughton
in Craven All Saints
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Carleton
in Craven St Mary
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