Place:Thurlstone, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Thurlstone is a village near Penistone now in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. Originally it was a small farming community and until 1974 was located in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Some industries developed using water power from the River Don (corn milling, wire drawing and various wool/cloth processes). Penistone is on the opposite side of the River Don from Thurlstone.

The following description from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 is provided by the website A Vision of Britain Through Time (University of Portsmouth Department of Geography).

"THURLSTONE, a township, with a village and five hamlets, in Penistone parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 1 mile W of Penistone, and including Hazlehead and Dunford-Bridge [railway] stations, 2 and 5 miles W[est]. Acres, 7,740. Real property, £8,463; of which £800 are in mines, and £30 in quarries. Population in 1851: 2,018; in 1861: 2,251. Houses: 450. The manor belongs to the Earl of Scarborough. Woollen cloth manufacture is carried on. There are a Church school used as a chapel of ease, Independent and Wesleyan chapels, and an Independent school."

Thurlstone was a township within the ancient or ecclesiatical parish of Penistone until 1866 when it became an independent civil parish. It was made an urban district in 1894 and remained so until 1938 when the parish was split between the parishes of Dunford (70% of the area) and Penistone (30% of the area).

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