Thornton in Lonsdale is a village and civil parish in the Craven District and ceremonial county of North Yorkshire in England.

[1] Its main claims to fame are the Marton Arms pub and St Oswald's Church, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle married his first wife at this church in 1885 and held his reception at The Marton Arms before setting off to Ireland on honeymoon.

[3] In 1086 the Domesday Book listed on folio 301v[4] under Craven Torntun & in Borch, Orm vi curactes ad geld.

– that is in Thornton in Lonsdale with Burrow-with-Burrow Orm has circa 720 acres of plough-land to be taxed.

This manor belonged to Orm, one of the family of Norse Noblemen who held the most land in Northern England.