Horton, Lancashire

Coordinates: 53°56′54″N 2°13′15″W / 53.9484°N 2.2209°W / 53.9484; -2.2209
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Horton
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSkipton
Postcode districtBD23
Dialling code01200
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53°56′54″N 2°13′15″W / 53.9484°N 2.2209°W / 53.9484; -2.2209

Horton, historically known as Horton-in-Craven, is a village and a civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of the English county of Lancashire (historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire). Population details are now included in the civil parish of Newsholme. It is near the town of Barnoldswick. Horton has a place of worship, anciently called a chapelry or chapel of ease. For transport, there is the A59 nearby.

The parish adjoins the Ribble Valley parishes of

United Kingdom Census 2011 grouped the parish with Newsholme and Paythorne (2001 pop. 50 and 95), giving a total of 253.[1][2][3]

The name

Old English horu 'dirt' and tūn 'settlement, farm, estate', presumably meaning 'farm on muddy soil'. This example is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086.[4] In the west of the parish in the Little Painley area, on high ground near the River Ribble, is the site of a Bronze Age Bowl barrow.[5]

Horton was once a

civil parish in 1866, forming part of the Bowland Rural District from 1894 to 1974.[6] It has since become part of the Lancashire borough of Ribble Valley
.

Along with

Gisburn, Rimington ward of Ribble Valley Borough Council.[3][7]

The

National Trail and Ribble Way pass through the parish.[8][9]

Media gallery

  • Horton House.
    Horton House.
  • Higher Paradise Congregational Chapel.
    Higher Paradise
    Congregational
    Chapel.
  • Hoober Farmhouse.
    Hoober Farmhouse.
  • The A682 passes through the west of the parish, here joined by the Pennine Bridleway.
    The A682 passes through the west of the parish, here joined by the Pennine Bridleway.
  • Horton Pasture Farm.
    Horton Pasture Farm.
  • Horton Beck, a tributary of Stock Beck.
    Horton Beck, a tributary of Stock Beck.

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Horton, Lancashire.

References

  1. ^ a b "Parish headcount" (PDF). Lancashire County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2006. Retrieved 27 December 2008.
  2. Office for National Statistics
    . Retrieved 1 March 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Wards and parishes map". MARIO. Lancashire County Council. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
  4. ^ Victor Watts (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), s.v. HORTON.
  5. ^ Historic England. "Little Painley bowl barrow (1009494)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
  6. ^ "Horton Tn/CP through time". visionofbritain.org.uk. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
  7. ^ "Gisburn, Rimington". Ordnance Survey Linked Data Platform. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  8. ^ MKH Computer Services Ltd. "Pennine Bridleway — LDWA Long Distance Paths". Ldwa.org.uk. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
  9. ^ MKH Computer Services Ltd. "Ribble Way — LDWA Long Distance Paths". Ldwa.org.uk. Retrieved 7 April 2016.


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