Thornton Rust
Thornton Rust is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Yorkshire Dales about 2 miles west of Aysgarth, high on the south bank of the River Ure in Wensleydale.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 127 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Thornton Rust, North Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Castle Dykes Henge and Addlebrough.
Castle Dykes Henge
Archaeological site
Photo: Chris Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Castle Dykes Henge is a Class I Neolithic henge earthwork in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in North Yorkshire, England, situated between the villages of Aysgarth and Thornton Rust.
Addlebrough
Peak
Addlebrough is a fell in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, England. It is 481 m high. Bronze Age inhabitants built homes and enclosures on the fell's southern slopes. Addlebrough is situated 1½ miles west of Thornton Rust.
St Oswald’s Church
Church
Photo: Chris06, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Oswald's Church is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Askrigg, North Yorkshire. St Oswald’s Church is situated 2 miles northwest of Thornton Rust.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Woodhall and Cubeck.
Woodhall
Hamlet
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Woodhall is a small hamlet in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, England. It is about 2 miles away from Askrigg and 3 miles north west of Aysgarth. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Richmondshire, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
Cubeck
Hamlet
Photo: Chris Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cubeck is a hamlet in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is near Thornton Rust and Worton and in the civil parish of Bainbridge. Metcalfe suggests the name derives from the Old English cu, and the Old Norse bekkr, meaning cow stream.
Worton
Hamlet
Photo: Sean Diver, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Worton is a hamlet in Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales part of the county of North Yorkshire, England. It lies 1-mile east of Bainbridge on the A684 road, 4 miles west of Aysgarth and 1-mile south east of Askrigg.
Thornton Rust
- Categories: village, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Thornton Rust, Richmondshire District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.29579° or 54° 17′ 45″ northLongitude
-2.04372° or 2° 2′ 37″ westPopulation
127Elevation
853 feet (260 metres)Open location code
9C6V7XW4+8GOpenStreetMap ID
node 243355278OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
12264493Wikidata ID
Q2590583
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Thornton Rust” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Thornton Rust”
- Dutch: “Thornton Rust”
- French: “Thornton Rust”
- Irish: “Thornton Rust”
- Polish: “Thornton Rust”
- Swedish: “Thornton Rust”
- Turkish: “Thornton Rust”
- “Thornton Rust”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Thornton Rust Mission Room and St. Restitutus Chapel.
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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 Rust”. Photo: Chris Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0.