Paythorne is a small village and civil parish in Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England.

[4] Paythorne is a small village, with not many facilities although it has a pub (the Buck Inn) and a Methodist chapel.

[5] The manors of Paythorne and Ellenthorpe were part of the Percy Fee which was listed under Craven in the Domesday Book.

[6] In the 1140s, William de Percy II, feudal baron of Topcliffe, granted Ellenthorpe, in the southwest of the civil parish, to the Cistercian monks who founded Sawley Abbey.

For local government, Paythorne is part of the ward of Gisburn, Rimington in the borough of Ribble Valley.