Burton
History
The earliest
documentary reference to Burton-in-Lonsdale is in the Domesday
book, which tells us that the township was in the holding
of Tostig, Earl of Northumberland, and was a subsidiary vill
of Whittington in the Lune valley. Under the Normans, a castle
was built at Burton to support a newly established castle
at Carlisle.
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Burton
Castle
Castle
Hill, Burton in Lonsdale, is a large and imposing site, sitting
on the outskirts of the village next to the church and dominating
the route alongside the river Greta from Hornby
(Lancaster) to Ingleton.
The motte is some 9.6m higher than the surrounding fields
and retains a breastwork wall around the upper part of the
mound. A nearly square bailey lies on the west side of the
motte and a second semi-lunar bailey is to the south. There
are remains of both the outer defensive ditch and a counterscarp
bank outside this. Excavations carried out in 1904 suggested
that the site originated as a ringwork in the 12th century
and was converted into a motte some time later. The site went
out of use in the mid 14th century.
Further
information can be found at the following links:
Richard
Thornton's Primary School
Richard
Thornton's Church Endowed School opened
in 1854. A local-born entrepreneur, Richard Thornton, financed
the building of the school. The curriculum included subjects
we are familiar with today such as reading, arithmetic, science,
geography and religious instruction. Pupils learned to write
in sand trays and progressed to slate boards and pen and paper
as they moved up the school. Today the school remains very
much a part of the community.Part of the North Yorkshire Local
Authority and a member of the Three Peaks Family of Schools,
it is a small, 2 class primary school open for children from
the age of 4 (Reception year) to the age of 10 (Year 5). >>>more
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Burton
Potteries
Burton
was once home to thirteen potteries and it was due to smoke
from the kilns that the village became known as 'Black Burton'.
The first potteries appeared in the late 1600's early 1700's
and reached a peak of 13 working within a mile of the village
centre in the 1800's. The Bateson family of the area were
associated with pottery production for over 200 years. Amongst
the potteries belonging to the Bateson family over the period
were Bleaberry pottery, Greata (Greta) Bank pottery, Greata
Mount pottery, Greta pottery' and Wilson pottery. Pottery
production ceased in Burton in Lonsdale at the end of the
Second World War, however two local potteries, Bentham
pottery and Ingleton
pottery now carry on the tradition.
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Local
History Links
W. H.
Chippindall (1931) “The
parish registers of the church of Thornton-in-Lonsdale, 1576-1812”,
C.T.J.
Dodson. The
Earl of Derby's Courthouse at Burton in Lonsdale Hudson
History, Settle, North Yorkshire, 2003.
C.T.J.
Dodson. Richard
Thornton's Endowments Sesquicentennial Year at Burton in Lonsdale
Yorkshire History Quarterly Vol. 10 No. 1 (2004) 13-15.
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