Mike Silburn and John Nottingham have produced yet another map covering the tithes apportionment for one of the local villages, in this case Thornton. There were no less than 400 sub-divisions ('closes') in the parish and village, and the associated table lists the owners, occupiers and acreage of each close in 1845. (Note that the 2 insets for closes 78-84 and 337-341 are based on the 1845 map and are aligned to magnetic north, some 20 degrees anticlockwise from the satellite imagery aligned to true north.) Virtually the whole parish consisting of c. 2,200 acres was then owned by Colonel George Wyndham, having been adopted as heir to substantial estates in Thornton and elsewhere on the death of the 4th Earl of Egremont of Petworth House in Sussex. Colonel Wyndham was raised to the peerage as Baron Leconfield in 1859. Of the residue of the parish, 22 acres were owned by The Pocklington Canal Company in respect of land previously purchased for that section of the canal cut through the south-east corner of the parish in 1817. Apart from a further 3 acres allotted to the Overseers of the Poor, plus 1 acre to the Vicar of Thornton, the residue of c. 64 acres had been allotted as glebe to the Dean of York, Sir William Cockburn Bart.

To view the map at full-scale, please click on the 'View fullscreen' link. Then zoom in and scroll around to see the parish map, the separate insets of Thornton Village and Closes, and the table of landowners and occupiers in more detail.