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THORNE, a small town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in W. R. Yorkshire. The town stands on the rier Don, the Keadby canal, and the South Yorkshire railway, amid a flat but fertile tract, 10 miles NE of Doncaster; and has a post-office‡ under Doncaster, a r. station with telegraph, two banking offices, an ancient church, six dissenting chapels, endowed schools with £200 a year, a workhouse, charities £342, ship-yards, roperies, timber-yards, wharves, a weekly market on Wednesday, and a cattle fair on 11 Oct. Pop. in 1861, 2,591. Houses, 628. The parish includes four hamlets, and comprises 11,900 acres. Real property, £17,610; of which £75 are in gasworks. Pop., 3,381. Houses, 775. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £200.* Patron, the Hon. H. A. Coventry.—The sub-district contains three parishes. Acres, 39,220. pop., 7,153. Houses, 1,694.—The district includes Crowle and Epworth sub-districts, in Lincolnshire; and comprises 71,946 acres. Poor rates in 1863, £6,801. Pop. in 1851, 15,886; in 1861, 16,011. Houses, 3,631 Marriages in 1863, 112; births, 619,- of which 46 were illegitimate; deaths, 370,-of which 159 were at ages under 5 years, and 10 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 1,145; births, 5,607; deaths, 3,404. The places of worship, in 1851, were 11 of the Church of England, with 3,996 sittings; 2 of Independents, with 380 s.; 1 of Baptists, with 96 s.; 1 of Quakers, with 250 s.; 2 of Unitarians, with 200 s.; 16 of Wesleyans, with 3,391 s.; 6 of New Connexion Methodists, with 1,228 s.; 14 of Primitive Methodists, with 1,633 s.; and 1 undefined, with 10 attendants. The schools were 12 public day-schools, with 639 scholars; 49 private day-schools, with 1,039 s.; and 39 Sunday schools, with 2,505 s.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a small town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Thorne Ch/AP/CP Thorne SubD Thorne RegD/PLU Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Thorne |
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