Thornton
Thornton is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 3.5 miles south-west of the town of Pocklington and 5 miles north-west of the village of Holme-on-Spalding-Moor.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 142 residents
- Description: village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England
- Also known as: “Thornton, East Riding of Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pocklington Canal Walbut Bridge and The Melbourne Arms.
Church of Saint Monica
Building
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of Saint Monica is a building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Melbourne and Storwood.
Melbourne
Village
Melbourne is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 8 miles west of the market town of Market Weighton and 4.5 miles south-west of the market town of Pocklington.
Storwood
Hamlet
Photo: Catherine Wilson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Storwood is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Cottingwith, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 6 miles south-west of Pocklington and lies to the south of the B1228 road on the south bank of the Pocklington Canal. Storwood is situated 3 miles west of Thornton.
Laytham
Village
Photo: Andy Beecroft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Laytham is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Foggathorpe, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 6 miles north of Howden town centre and 3 miles west of Holme-on-Spalding-Moor. Laytham is situated 3½ miles south of Thornton.
Thornton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Thornton, East Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.89833° or 53° 53′ 54″ northLongitude
-0.84575° or 0° 50′ 45″ westPopulation
142Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB TRTOpen location code
9C5XV5X3+8POpenStreetMap ID
node 87176259OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Thornton” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Thornton (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Thornton”
- Dutch: “Thornton”
- French: “Thornton (Yorkshire de l’Est)”
- French: “Thornton”
- Irish: “Thornton”
- Italian: “Thornton (East Riding of Yorkshire)”
- Italian: “Thornton”
- Ladin: “Thornton (East Riding of Yorkshire)”
- Ladin: “Thornton”
- Polish: “Thornton”
- Swedish: “Thornton (distriktshuvudort)”
- Swedish: “Thornton, East Riding of Yorkshire”
- Turkish: “Thornton, East Riding of Yorkshire”
- “Thornton”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Saint Michael’s Church and Mill House Lane Plantation.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Thornton”. Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.