THORNTON-IN-CRAVEN, a parish, with a village and four townships, in Skipton district, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Skipton and Burnley railway, 6 miles SW of Skipton. It has a post-office under Skipton, and a r. station. Acres, 6,710. Real property, £8,996; of which £200 are in quarries. Pop., 2,112. Houses, 422. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in The diocese of Ripon. Value, £250.* Patron, the Rev. L. S. Morris. The church is old. The p. curacy of Kelbrook is a separate benefice. There are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school with £20 a year, and alms houses with £60.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))