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THORNER;_ WEST RIDING YORKSHIRE .. 1380 A. Ikin (1860): the west window, of three lights, was in~ estate of9 acres produces .£:30 yearly. The Earl of Mex... tJerted in memory of Charlotte Eliza Thompson (1856) ~ in borough is lord of the runnor and principal landowner. The the north aisle is a stained window erected bv• the friends of soil is clay; subsoil, limet~toue and ironstone. The chief Henry Skelton of Thorner (1875) ~ the font i.J coeval with crops are wheat, barley and oats. The population of the the restoration of the church : the h~lls are all dated 1874. township in 1871 was 837; the area is 2,316 acres; rateable The register dates from the year 1650, and is in fairly good value £5,8-!6; area of the parish, which includes Scarcroft condition. The living is a. vicarsg-e, worth £-!00 yearly and Shad well, 4,888 acres; the population of entire parish with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Mexborough, and in 1871 was 1,627. 11eld by the Rev. James Wilson Muscroft M.A. of Christ's Parish Clerk, John Malthy. College, Cambrid~e; the Rev. John William Oates M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford, is at present curate in charge. PosT 0FFICE.-GeorgP Midgley, receiver. Letters re Thomer New Wesleyan chapel (Leeds, Brunswick circuit) ceived from Leeds, arrive at 7.30 a.m.; dispatched at is a beautiful structure of stone, in the Decorated Gothic 7 p.m.; no mail on sunday. The nearest money order style, erected in Carr lane hy the Wesleyans of Thomer and & telrgraph office is at Bramharn Scaffroft, at a cost of £6,200 (including the site of one acre There is a WALL LETTER. Box at Sandhill cleared at of ground}, from the designs of Mr. G. F. Danby, of Leeds, 6.30 p.m. in 1877 and 1K8; the buildings comprise the chapel, " INsuRANCE AGENT :-Norwich Union Fire, T. G. large school room, three class rooms, minister'» vestry and Pemberton chapel keeper's house: the front of the chapel consists of SCHOOLS:- a large central gable, with ornamental entrance, and two National (mixed), also educates six free scholars, on an windows on either side for the inner lobbies, with handsome ancient endowment; J oseph Hardcastle, master four light traceried windows over the entrance. and two lVesleyan. J oah Alien Booth, master others on either side; on the left band, rising to a height of Railway Station, Alban Greenwood, station master lOO feet, is a neat tower and spire containing a stair-case to the gallery ; on the right, another staircase is arranged as a CARRIER TO LEEDS.-George Brown, tues. & sat. from wing to the central gable, with octagonal end: the sides of his own house the chapel are divided by buttresses into five bays, each Scarcroft is a township and village in the parish of lighted by two windows : the whole of the windows are filled Thoruer, 5 miles south from Wetherby. Sir Edward Vava with tinted glass and havrl coloured margins; the inside sour bart. is lord of the manor, and George Lane Fox esq. wood work is of pitch pine, polished and varnished, and of Bramham Park, is the chief landowner. 1'he soil is fitted up with cushions, carpets, book boxes and umbrella various; subsoil, gravel. 1'he chief crops are wheat, barley stands, and will seat 450 persons; there is a gallery at the end and potatoes. 1'he area is 1,073 acr~; gross estimated supported by decorated columns: the roof is of the hammer rental £2,348; rateable value £2,5~6; and the population beam construction, open timbered and boarded diagonally; in 1871, 336. the acoustiC! properties of the building are perfect : the chapel contains a VP.ry fine organ, and there is a memorial PosT OFFICE-.- Mrs. Frances Watsoo, receiver. Letters tablet to the memory of the Hev. John Pawson, who was arrive through Leeds at 6.45 a. m.; dispatched at 6.25 born in this village. and buried here March 23rd, 1806, aged p.m. The nearest money order & tel~graph office is at 68, having been 44 years an itinerant minister. The poor's Bramham Thorner. Winter Miss, KenBington terrace Sawyer William, farmer PRIVATE RESIDE~TS. \Varsnop Frederick, Skippon terrace Scott Joseph, blacksmith Abby Henry, Sandhill Yates Thomas, Skippon terrace Shepherd Job, shoe maker Atkinson Charles, Westfield house COlllMERCIAL. Smith John, farmer Barber Wllliam Lister, Sandhill Barry J ames Biuns, printer Stead David, wheelwright Barker Edwin, Brook cottage Booth J oah Alien, school master Stead George, blackE.mith Bensun William, Skippon terrace Rradley John, farmer Swales J oseph, shopkeeper & joiner Birdstall Geor!!;e, Skippon terrace Brewerton John, grocer Tarboton Thomfl.s, plumber Blaiklock David Stanway, Ash field Brook J on as, corn dealer Tate Wiliiam, Pox inr. Dalby Miss Browl'l George, carrier Teale John Edward, farmer Dobson Thomas Leeming, Fieldhead Bullock William, rope maker Tennant Thomas, cattle dealer Duffield Mrs Carr William, farmer Waddington Ann (Mrs.), milliner Elsworth John Clough Charles, grocer & draper Watmough Mary( Mrs.), maltstr.&farmr Fitz-J ohn Henry Colley William, shoe maker Winter Matthew, joiner Green John, Skippon terrace Cooper William, tailor Wood Joseph, house painter Greenhow Thomas, Butt garth Crow Thomas, butcher Wrig-glesworth William Mawson, as- Hainsworth William, Sandhill Dalby Richard, farmer, N ovia Scotia sistant overseer Hammond Miss, Kensington terrace Deighton Joshua, stone mason Yeoman William & Peter, builders, Jl arrison Richard, Eltoft Elam John, shoe maker Bramham road Haste Mrs. Skippon terrace Ellis John, commercial traveller, Yorkshire Penny Bank (open satur Hodgson Alfred, Sandhill Skippon t~rrace days 7 to 8 p.m Kidson Mrs. Skippon terrace Elsworth Edwin, farmer, Norwood bo Kitchen Thomas Firth William, farmer Scarcroft. Knights Arthur Lanp;ford, SBildhill ho Fyrth Thomas, farrier IIelmsley James, Marlboro' house Lewi.s Rev. Robert [Wesleyan], Ken- Gibbon John, farmer Hemus Thomas, Beech grove sington terrace GillMartinHicks,boarding & day school, Ikin Mrs McDunald John & farmer Mann Mrs. Castle Mona McDonald Mrs Green J ames, beer retailer March Georg-e, Oaklands Mais John Ivey Hardisty Henry, saddler Miers John Samuel, Grove house Milner Mrs Harrison Brothers, joiners Miers William Tbomas, The Grange Moon Mrs. Skippon terrace H earfieiJ Thomas, cattle dealer Tennant Robert J .P. Scarcroft lodge M uscroft Rev .Jas. W ilson M .A. Vicarage Howe Emily (Miss), boarding school Walker Mrs. Beacon grove :Newman Mrs. Skippon terrace Kershaw Robert, currier CO Ill MERCIA.L. Oates Rev. John \\ illiam lii..A.. [curate] Law James, farmer, Eltofts Barker J oseph, fa1·mer Pem berton Thomas M ais John Ivey, surgeon Daniel George, joiner Pickard John Maltby Charles, shopkeeper Dodgson Thuma'!, farmer Roland Spice, Skippon terrace Mal thy John, tailor Greaves Thomas, New inn Stephenson William, Sandhill Midgley Geo. shopkeeper & post office Green John, farmer, El wood Strickland t.:harles Muff Edward, faru,er M ann Arthur Walker,assistant overseer 8tricklw.d J. F. R Nettleton William, builder & tax collector, .Mona castle Thornton Mrs Parkin Elizabeth(Mrs.),.illexbro'Arms Revis Mary (Mrs.) & John, farm~rs & Thwaites George, Kensington terrace Prentlce John, cooper millers Wager John, Kensington terrace Preston Aaron, butcher Ridsdale Peter, shopkeeper Wild Edward, Bramley grange Preston John, shoe maker Wood Stephen, blacksmith Winter George BeecroftT Butt garth Robinson J 011hua Horner, malt.ster Wood William, farmer THORNES, situated on the Calderl'- over which is a WRkefield, partly witllin the municipal and parliamentary suspeusion bridge to Dirtcar and Bretton West, is a village borou~b of Waketie~d, I mile south-west from Wakefield, and ecclesiastical parish, formed in 18H from the parish of 1 and forming part of the township of Alverthorpe wilh • .