THORNTON (BISHOP), a chapelry in that part of
the parish of RIPON which is in the liberty of RIPON,
West riding of the county of YORK, 3 miles (N.N.W.)
from Ripley, containing 647 inhabitants. The living is
a perpetual curacy, in the jurisdiction of the peculiar
court of Ripon, belonging to the Archbishop of York,
endowed with £400 private benefaction, £600 royal
bounty, and £900 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of the Dean and Chapter of Ripon.