Thrintoft
{{Short description|Village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2018}}
{{Infobox UK place
| country = England
| coordinates = {{coord|54.333|-1.508|display=inline,title}}
| official_name = Thrintoft
| unitary_england = North Yorkshire
| lieutenancy_england = North Yorkshire
| region = Yorkshire and the Humber
| static_image_name = Village Street, Thrintoft.jpg
| static_image_caption = Village street, Thrintoft
| population = 185
| population_ref = (Including Little Langton. 2011 census){{NOMIS2011|id=1170216949|title=Thrintoft Parish |accessdate=30 June 2018}}
| constituency_westminster =
| post_town = Northallerton
| postcode_district = DL7
| postcode_area = DL
| dial_code =
| os_grid_reference = SE320931
}}
Thrintoft is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated close to the River Swale, {{convert|3|mi|0}} west of Northallerton.{{cite news |last1=Warne |first1=Malcolm |title=Review: The New Inn, Thrintoft, Northallerton |url=https://www.darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk/news/16861504.review-the-new-inn-thrintoft-northallerton/ |accessdate=4 July 2019 |work=Darlington and Stockton Times |date=14 September 2018}}
Thrintoft is mentioned in the Domesday Book as being in the possession of Picot of Lascelles.{{cite web |title=Thrintoft |url=https://opendomesday.org/place/SE3293/thrintoft/ |website=opendomesday.org |accessdate=4 July 2019}} One of his descendants, Roger de Lascelles, gifted the village to St Mary's Abbey in York around 1146.{{cite book |last1=Clay |first1=Charles Travis |last2=Farrer |first2=William |title=Early Yorkshire charters. Vol. 5, The Honour of Richmond, part 2 |date=1936 |publisher=Yorkshire Archaeological Society |page=195|oclc=912949981}} The name derives from Old Norse and is registered in the Domesday Book as Tirnetofte. It is believed to mean the thorn-bush by (or in) the field.{{cite book |last1=Ekwall |first1=Eilert |author-link=Eilert Ekwall |title=The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names |date=1960 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |oclc=1228215388 |page= 470|edition=4}}
File:The Chapel at Thrintoft - geograph.org.uk - 6401.jpg
Historically in the parish of Ainderby Steeple, which lies {{convert|1|mi|adj=on}} to the south,{{cite web |title=Genuki: Ainderby Steeple, Yorkshire (North Riding) |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/AinderbySteeple |website=www.genuki.org.uk |accessdate=4 July 2019}} it became its own parish in 1866{{cite web |title=Thrintoft CP/Tn through time {{!}} Census tables with data for the Parish-level Unit |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10471989#tab02 |website=www.visionofbritain.org.uk |accessdate=4 July 2019}} and now contains the hamlet of Little Langton. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Hambleton, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
Whilst the parish has a population of 185, North Yorkshire County Council estimated that the population of the village was 140 at the 2011 census and remained at that number in 2015.{{cite web |title=2015 Population Estimates Parishes |url=https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/sites/default/files/fileroot/About%20the%20council/North%20Yorkshire%20statistics/Parish_mid-year_population_estimates_2015.pdf |website=northyorks.gov.uk |accessdate=4 July 2019 |page=12 |date=December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220604015709/https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/sites/default/files/fileroot/About%20the%20council/North%20Yorkshire%20statistics/Parish_mid-year_population_estimates_2015.pdf|archive-date=4 June 2022|url-status=dead}}
The village is recorded as having a corn mill in 1539, which led to the stream flowing south west through the settlement into the River Swale being named Mill Beck.{{cite web |title=Parishes: Ainderby Steeple {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/north/vol1/pp144-150 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk |accessdate=4 July 2019}} The chapel of St Mary Magdalen, now a barn, was built during the 13th to 15th centuries. It was endowed in 1253 as a chantry chapel connected to Jervaulx Abbey and is a grade II* listed building.{{NHLE|num=1315439|desc=Chapel of Saint Mary Magdalen|accessdate=11 December 2013}} The chapel is the only surviving building from Thrintoft Grange.{{PastScape |num=53983 |desc=Thrintoft Grange |access-date=4 July 2019}}
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