Place:Cawthorn (near Pickering), North Riding of Yorkshire, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

NOTE: There is another place named Cawthorne within Barnsley in South Yorkshire (formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire).

Two descriptions of Cawthorne indicate that there was some habitation through the centuries.

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Cawthorne Camp (sometimes spelled "Cawthorn") is a Roman site in north-east England, about 4 miles (6 km) north of Pickering, in North Yorkshire. The well-preserved earthworks outline two forts, one with an extension, and a temporary camp built to an unusual plan.

The works date from the late 1st/early 2nd century AD. It has been suggested that they were built for practice rather than for actual military use.

Archaeological investigation has found indications of pre-Roman activity at the site, and also traces of later sunken dwellings (Grubenhäuser).

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

"CAWTHORN, a township in Middleton parish, [North Riding of] Yorkshire; 3½ miles NNW of Pickering. Acres: 1,540. Population: 33. Houses: 3. Here are four Roman camps, in good preservation; one of them square and double-ditched; another, nearly oval, 850 feet long and 320 broad. Some British tumuli are near."

Prior to the nationwide municipal reorganization of 1974, Cawthorn was located in Pickering Rural District. Historically, it was located in the ecclesiastical parish of Middleton in the Pickering Lythe Wapentake. It was in the Pickering Registration District.

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