Thornton-le-Moor is a village and civil parish in the former Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England, situated equidistantly from the towns of Thirsk and Northallerton.

[4] In Victorian times a domestic weaving industry flourished in the village but agriculture was the main occupation.

It remained in the Sadler family for more than 100 years until it passed to Robert Dennison, who willed it to Messrs Richardson, Carter and Armitage.

The village is at the foot of the ridge that divides the drainage basins of the River Wiske and the Cod Beck.

Otterington railway station on the line from York to Newcastle upon Tyne served the village between 1841 and 1958.

The village is connected to St Michael's Church in North Otterington by Endican Lane which joins the old corpse road from Thornton-le-Beans.

Built of stone with a slate roof, it had a four-bay nave, quire, south porch and north vestry.

The village cricket club formed in the 1950s and has 2 Saturday teams playing in the Nidderdale Amateur Cricket League from April to September, as well as a team in the Northallerton and District Evening League and Tuesday and Thursday evenings Media related to Thornton-le-Moor at Wikimedia Commons