THORNTHWAITE, a chapelry in the parish of
HAMPSTHWAITE, lower division of the wapentake of
CLARO, West riding of the county of YORK, 7 miles
(W. by S.) from Ripley, containing, with the township
of Padside, 309 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Honour court
of Knaresborough, endowed with £200 private benefaction,
£800 royal bounty, and £ 600 parliamentary grant,
and in the patronage of the Vicar of Hampsthwaite.
Flax-spinning and the manufacture of linen are carried
on here. Francis Day, in 1748 and 1757, gave land
producing an annual income of £20, for teaching poor
children of Thornthwaite, Padside, Menwith Hill, and
Darley.