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A 'squalid' but 'humane' poorhouse, for up to 40 paupers of the parish, was established in 1737 between Long Street and St James Green. 100 years later in 1837, the Thirsk Poor Law Union was formed to serve the wider district.
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Thornton-le-Street is situated about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Thirsk and about 5.3 miles (8.5 km) south-east of the county town of Northallerton. The whole village is within the site of the old medieval village and designated and Ancient Monument under the terms of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. [4]
The river extends for 20 miles (32 km) from above Cod Beck Reservoir at Osmotherley on the edge of the North York Moors through Thirsk and on to join the River Swale at Topcliffe. [1] Cod Beck has a long history of flooding Thirsk and a feasibility study completed in April 2005 recommended additional flood defences and upstream storage. In 2011 ...
The Leeds and Thirsk presented a bill in 1845–46 for a line from Wath (later Melmerby) to join the Stockton and Hartlepool Railway at Billingham.Under pressure from Hudson the route was changed so that the GNER would be used between Thirsk and Northallerton and the Leeds and Hartlepool Railway Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. cxlix) received royal assent on 16 July 1846.
English: Long Street, Atherstone Long Street is Atherstone's main shopping street. The town's post office is incorporated in the branch of McColl's on the immediate left. Just beyond that is the Red Lion Hotel, an old coaching inn, and on the right is the Old Bakery Cafe.