Thirn
Thirn is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is situated close to the River Ure, about 3 miles south-west of Bedale. The hamlet of Thirn is mentioned in the Domesday Book, and the name derives from the Old English þyrne, meaning thorn-bush.Photo: Chris Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet with 82 residents
- Description: village in North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Thirn, North Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Burrill Mission Church and Mar Field Fen.
Burrill Mission Church
Church
Photo: Mel Towler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Burrill Mission Church is situated 1½ miles northeast of Thirn.
Mar Field Fen
Nature reserve
Mar Field Fen is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, or SSSI, north of Masham, North Yorkshire, England, in a rural area known as Marfield. It is situated on land containing woodland carr, fen, spring-fed marshy grassland and drier calcareous grassland, between the River Ure to the east and Marfield Wetland nature reserve to the west. Mar Field Fen is situated 2½ miles south of Thirn.
Thornton Watlass Hall
House
Thornton Watlass Hall is a large Grade I listed Georgian country house in Thornton Watlass, North Yorkshire, England, some 3 miles north of Masham. It is constructed of stone with an 18th-century gabled two-storey main block and 16th century wings at each end.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thornton Watlass and Low Ellington.
Thornton Watlass
Village
Photo: Andrew McLean, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thornton Watlass is a small village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is located north of Masham and south of Bedale on the eastern slopes of the Ure Valley at the entrance to Wensleydale and the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
Low Ellington
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Low Ellington is a small village in lower Wensleydale in North Yorkshire, England about 2 miles north-west of Masham. It is 0.5 miles east of the much larger village of High Ellington.
Burrill
Hamlet
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Burrill is a small village in near to Bedale in North Yorkshire, England. It is in the parish of Burrill with Cowling and 1 mile west of Bedale. Burrill is situated 1½ miles northeast of Thirn.
Thirn
- Categories: village, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Thirn, Hambleton, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.26779° or 54° 16′ 4″ northLongitude
-1.67038° or 1° 40′ 13″ westPopulation
82Elevation
266 feet (81 metres)Open location code
9C6W789H+4ROpenStreetMap ID
node 29075126OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
12572729Wikidata ID
Q2690278
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Satellite Map
Discover Thirn from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Turkish—“Thirn” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Тхирн”
- Cebuano: “Thirn”
- Dutch: “Thirn”
- French: “Thirn”
- Irish: “Thirn”
- Ladin: “Thirn”
- Polish: “Thirn”
- Swedish: “Thirn”
- Turkish: “Thirn”
- “Thirn”
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