Thrintoft
| Thrintoft | |
| Yorkshire North Riding | |
|---|---|
 Thrintoft | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SE320931 |
| Location: | 54°19’59"N, 1°30’29"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 185 (2011, with Little Langton) |
| Post town: | Northallerton |
| Postcode: | DL7 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | North Yorkshire |
Thrintoft is a village in the North Riding of Yorkshire, close to the River Swale, three miles west of Northallerton.
Thrintoft is recorded in the Domesday Book as being in the possession of Picot of Lascelles.[1] One of his descendants, Roger de Lascelles, granted the village as a gift to St Mary's Abbey in York around 1146.[2]
The name 'Thrintoft' derives from Old Norse. It is registered in the Domesday Book as Tirnetofte, and the name is believed to mean the thorn-bush by (or in) the field.[3]
Historically this village was within the parish of Ainderby Steeple, a miles to the south.[4] The modern civil parish, including the hamlet of Little Langton, had a population of 185 by estimation.
The village is recorded as having a corn mill in 1539, which led to the stream flowing south west through the settlement into the River Swale being named Mill Beck.[5]
The chapel of St Mary Magdalen, now a barn, was built during the 13th to 15th centuries. It was endowed in 1253 as a chantry chapel connected to Jervaulx Abbey and is a grade II* listed building.[6] The chapel is the only surviving building from Thrintoft Grange.
The village has a pub, The New Inn.
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References
- ↑ Thrintoft in the Domesday Book
- ↑ Clay, Charles Travis; Farrer, William (1936). Early Yorkshire charters. Vol. 5, The Honour of Richmond, part 2. Yorkshire Archaeological Society. p. 195. OCLC 912949981.
- ↑ Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. p. 470 ISBN 0198691033
- ↑ Information on Thrintoft from GENUKI
- ↑ A History of the County of York: North Riding - Volume 1 pp 144-150: Parishes: Ainderby Steeple (Victoria County History)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1315439: Chapel of Saint Mary Magdalen (Grade II* listing)