Arrathorne

Arrathorne

Arrathorne

Hamlet and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England

Arrathorne is a hamlet and civil parish in the former Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. The settlement is 6 miles (9 km) south of Richmond, 6 miles (9 km) north-west of Bedale and 6 miles (9 km) east of Leyburn.[1] The name has been recorded variously as Ergthorn, Erchethorn, Erghethorn, Erethorn and Arrowthorne.[2] It means The Thornbush by the Shieling.[3] Historically, the hamlet was in the Parish of Patrick Brompton in the Wapentake of Hang East.[4]

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The nearest city to Arrathorne is Ripon. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 61. The population in 2011 census was 90 with an estimated population of the same number in 2015.[5] It has neither pub nor public telephone box and is not on a bus route. The nearest bus stop is in Hunton, just over a mile away. The nearest national rail station on the East Coast Main Line is in Northallerton 11 miles (18 km) away.[1]

There is one recorded descriptive gazetteer entry, in John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles, "Arrathorne, township, North-Riding Yorkshire, 5 miles NE. of Leyburn, 671 ac., pop. 62."[6]

References

  1. [1]
    "99" (Map). Northallerton & Ripon. 1:50,000. landranger. Ordnance Survey. 2016. ISBN 9780319261972.
  2. [2]
    "Arrathorne :: Survey of English Place-Names". epns.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  3. [3]
    Ekwall, Eilert (1947). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (3 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 12. OCLC 12542596.
  4. [4]
    "Genuki: Patrick Brompton, Yorkshire (North Riding)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  5. [5]
    "2015 Population Estimates" (PDF). northyorks.gov.uk. p. 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 June 2022. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  6. [6]
    Bartholomew, John (1887). Gazetteer of the British Isles. Bartholomew. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
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