Arrathorne

Arrathorne
Arrathorne
	Cottages at Arrathorne
	Arrathorne Location within North Yorkshire
Population	about 50
OS grid reference	SE201932
Unitary authority	North Yorkshire;
Ceremonial county	North Yorkshire;
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BEDALE
Postcode district	DL8
Dialling code	01677
Police	North Yorkshire
Fire	North Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
	List of places UK England Yorkshire 54°20′05″N 1°41′32″W / 54.3348°N 1.69218°W

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]

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

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

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[:OS:-1] "99" (Map). Northallerton & Ripon. 1:50,000. landranger. Ordnance Survey. 2016. ISBN 9780319261972.

[2] "Arrathorne :: Survey of English Place-Names". epns.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 May 2020.

[3] Ekwall, Eilert (1947). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (3 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 12. OCLC 12542596.

[4] "Genuki: Patrick Brompton, Yorkshire (North Riding)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 11 May 2020.

[5] "2015 Population Estimates" (PDF). northyorks.gov.uk. p. 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 June 2022. Retrieved 16 March 2018.

[6] Bartholomew, John (1887). Gazetteer of the British Isles. Bartholomew. Retrieved 4 February 2014.

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