Thwing
| Thwing | |
| Yorkshire East Riding | |
|---|---|
.jpg) All Saints' Church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TA049701 |
| Location: | 54°6’58"N, 0°23’44"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Driffield |
| Postcode: | YO25 |
| Dialling code: | 01262 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
East Yorkshire |
Thwing is a village and parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, within the wapentake of Dickering.
Description
Thwing is located in the Yorkshire Wolds about eight miles west of the North Sea coast at Bridlington.[1]
The village has a 12th-century Norman Church (All Saints),[2] and a pub known as The Falling Stone,[3] previously The Rampant Horse, before 1976 the Raincliffe Arms.[4][5]
The Falling Stone pub name is a reference to the Wold Cottage Meteorite, which fell nearby on 13 December 1795. A monument to its fall can be visited.
The church, as well as the post office (1830s) and 'Pear Tree farmhouse' (late 18th century) are listed buildings.[2][6][7]
Thwing is the birth place of John Twenge, the 14-th century saint.
History
Thwing is thought to mean 'narrow strip of land', deriving from thvengr (Old Scandinavian) or thweng (Old English).[8] The village is recorded in Domesday Book (1086) as Tuennc, in the hundred of Burton.[8][9]
The church of All Saints dates from the 12th century.[2] A market and fair began in Thwing in 1257.[10]
A Wesleyan chapel was established in Thwing in the early 1800s. It was built around 1810, and rebuilt and enlarged around 1839.[11][12]
From the 1850s to the start of the 21st century the extent of building development in the village was practically unchanged.[1][13]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ordnance Survey. 1:25000. 2009
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 National Heritage List 1083406: Church of All Saints
- ↑ "The Falling Stone – Thwing". www.themobilefoodguide.com. http://www.themobilefoodguide.com/select/info19858.php. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
- ↑ "The Villages of the Yorkshire Wolds – Thwing". Driffield Online. 1999. http://www.driffield.co.uk/wolds_village_thwing.htm. Retrieved 20 August 2006.
- ↑ Coates, J (2006). "Thwing, East Yorkshire". Two Mile Ash Site. Archived from the original on 23 July 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080723124336/http://www.bakerhd.demon.co.uk/east-riding-thwing-general.html. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1162663: Pear Tree Farmhouse
- ↑ National Heritage List 1083363: The Post Office
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Mills, A.D. (1998). Dictionary of English Place-Names (2 ed.). Oxford University Press. Thwing, p.347a.
- ↑ Thwing in the Domesday Book
- ↑ Letters, Samantha (2005). "39. Yorkshire". Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516. Thwing. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40441&startpage=3.
- ↑ Allen 1831, p. 92.
- ↑ Wolffe, John (2006). Yorkshire Returns of the 1851 Census of Religious Worship: Introduction, City of York and East Riding. Borthwick Publications. p. 106. https://books.google.com/books?id=_zBmAAAAMAAJ.
- ↑ Ordnance survey. 1:10506 & 1:10000. 1854, 1912, 1956–8, 1972–83
Sources
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Thwing) |
- Gazetteer – A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 11.
- Allen, Thomas (1831). "XII. Survey of Dickering Wapentake – Thwing". A new and complete history of the county of York. 4. I.T. Hinton. pp. 91–95. https://books.google.com/books?id=2acKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA91.