Place:Thorpe in Balne, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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NameThorpe in Balne
Alt namesBalnesource: GENUKI
TypeVillage, Civil parish
Coordinates53.593°N 1.097°W
Located inWest Riding of Yorkshire, England     ( - 1974)
Also located inSouth Yorkshire, England     (1974 - )
Yorkshire, England    
See alsoDoncaster Rural, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandrural district of which it was a part until 1974
Doncaster (metropolitan borough), South Yorkshire, Englandmetropolitan borough of which it has been a part since 1974
source: Family History Library Catalog
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Thorpe in Balne is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 176 at the 2001 census, increasing to 203 at the 2011 Census.

A moated site with a chapel and a fishpond near the manor house is a Grade II* listed monument. The chapel once served as the village church. Another moated site in the civil parish is located at Tilts.

Residents of Thorpe in Balne were asked to evacuate their homes during the 2019 United Kingdom floods.

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

"THORPE-IN-BALNE, a township in Barnby-upon-Don parish, [West Riding of] Yorkshire; 5½ miles NNE of Doncaster. Acres: 1,507. Real property: £1,439. Pop.: 107. Houses: 23."

Historically, Thorpe in Balne was in the ecclesiastical parish of Barnby Dun in the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill. From 1894 until 1974, Thorpe in Balne was located in Doncaster Rural District.

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Research Tips

  • GENUKI on Thorpe in Balne. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
  • The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Barnby Dun provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
  • A Vision of Britain through Time on Thorpe in Balne.
  • A Vision of Britain through Time also provides links to three maps for what is now South Yorkshire, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. These maps all blow up to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.
  • Ordnance Survey West Riding 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts) for the whole of the West Riding.
  • Ordnance Survey West Riding South 1900. The rural and urban districts, not long after their introduction. (the southern part of Bradford, the southern part of Leeds, the southern part of Tadcaster Rural District, the southern part of Selby, Goole Rural District, and all the divisions of Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield, Doncaster, Barnsley, Rotherham and Sheffield)
  • Ordnance Survey West Riding 1944. The urban and rural districts of the whole of the West Riding after the revisions of 1935.
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