Place:Thorpe (near Howden), East Riding of Yorkshire, England

The Thorpe in Howden Rural District, presently under discussion, is not mentioned in Wikipedia. However, GENUKI adds another settlement of "2 cots" named Thorpe Lidget at the same distance and direction from Howden.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Thorpe from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"THORPE, a township in Howden parish, [East Riding of] Yorkshire; 1½ mile N by E of Howden. Acres: 296. Real property: £398. Population: 33. Houses: 8."

Historically, Thorpe was in the ecclesiastical parish of Howden in the wapentake of Howdenshire. Despite its smallness, it was made a civil parish in 1866 and from 1894 until 1935, it was a civil parish in Howden Rural District. In 1935 the parish was abolished and the area became part of the civil parish of Eastrington, its neighbour to the east.

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Thorpe. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Howden provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
• Howdenshire History provides histories of towns and villages in the area provided by a local family historian. The stories of some families who emigrated to Ontario, Canada, are included.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Thorpe.
• A Vision of Britain through Time provides links to three maps of the East Riding, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. These maps all expand to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.

• Ordnance Survey 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts).
• Ordnance Survey 1900 The rural districts, not long after their introduction.
• Ordnance Survey 1944. The rural districts after the revisions of 1935.