Thornton Rust
Major Settlement in the Parish of Aysgarth
Historical Forms
- Torentun, Toretun 1086 DB
- Thorneton Ruske 1153 Dugdv.573
- Rust 12 RichReg
Etymology
v. þorn , tun . The suffixed feudal element can best be explained if we think that the manor was at one time held by an Anglo-Scand owner called Hrosskell , a name which appears in the Yorkshire DB as Roschil and Ruschil . Rusk would be a regular shortened form of this, and Rust a folk-etymologising perversion of it. There is nothing definitely to connect Thornton with a man of this name, but it is at least a curious coincidence that DB records a Roschil among the pre-Conquest owners of land in Richmondshire.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Cotterdale
- Hell Gill
- Lunds
- How Beck Bridge
- Lunds Beck
- Cams House
- Fossdale
- Hardrow
- Hell Gill Beck
- Litherskew
- Sedbusk
- Shaw
- Simon Stone
- Thwaite
- Ure Head
- Fors
- Meer Beck
- Skell Gill
- Stags Fell
- Cogill
- Ings Beck
- Nappa
- Newbiggin
- Woodhall
- High Gill, Low Gill
- Addlebrough
- Bardale
- Blean, Blean Beck
- Brough Hill
- Countersett
- Cragdale
- Green Scar Mire
- Keld Bottom, Keld Scar
- Marsett
- Raydale
- Semer Water
- Semerdale
- Stalling Busk
- Stone Raise
- Windgate
- Worton
- Howgill
- Kidstones
- Walden
- Bear Park
- West Bolton
- Eller Beck
- Tewfit
- Thackthwaite Beck
- Thoresby
- Appersett
- Burtersett
- Gayle, Sleddale
- Mossdale
- Snaizeholme
- Widdale and Widdale Beck
- Whit Beck
- Crooksby
- Heaning Gill
- Swinacote
- Brindley
- Greenber