Whorlton
Whorlton is a hamlet and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is very near Swainby and the A19, and 6 miles south west of Stokesley. It is the site of a deserted medieval village, a scheduled monument, the remains of Whorlton Castle and the Church of the Holy Rood.- Type: Hamlet with 562 residents
- Description: hamlet and civil parish in North Yorkshire, UK
- Also known as: “Whorlton, North Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Whorlton Castle and Holy Cross Church, Swainby.
Whorlton Castle
Castle
Whorlton Castle is a ruined medieval castle situated near the abandoned village of Whorlton in North Yorkshire, England. It was established in the early 12th century as a Norman motte-and-bailey fortification associated with the nearby settlement.
Holy Cross Church, Swainby
Church
Holy Cross Church is the parish church of Swainby, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was built in 1877, as a replacement for Whorlton Old Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Swainby and Faceby.
Swainby
Village
Swainby is a village in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the A172 road, 8 miles north-east from Northallerton and 5 miles south-west from the small market town of Stokesley.
Faceby
Village
Faceby is a small village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is at the north-west corner of the North York Moors and near Stokesley.
Potto
Village
Potto is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is 5 miles southwest of Stokesley and near the main A172 road. Potto has a pub, a church and a haulage company, Prestons of Potto, which was established in 1936.
Whorlton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Whorlton, Hambleton, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.41436° or 54° 24′ 52″ north
Longitude
-1.25353° or 1° 15′ 13″ west
Population
562
Elevation
407 feet (124 metres)
Open location code
9C6WCP7W+PH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Whorlton” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Whorlton (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Whorlton”
- Dutch: “Whorlton”
- French: “Whorlton”
- Irish: “Whorlton”
- Ladin: “Whorlton (North Yorkshire)”
- Ladin: “Whorlton”
- Persian: “ورلتون، یورکشر شمالی”
- Persian: “ورلتون”
- Polish: “Whorlton”
- Swedish: “Whorlton (parish)”
- Swedish: “Whorlton, North Yorkshire”
- Turkish: “Whorlton, North Yorkshire”
- “Whorlton”
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