Торнер: Тарихы мен географиясы

Village and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England
the English village

The name of Thorner is first attested in the 1086 Domesday Book as Torneure, Tornoure and Tornoura. The name comes from the Old English words þorn ('thorn') and ofer ('bank, slope'), and thus meant "thorn bank". The township and parish of Thorner also included Eltofts, whose name comes from the Old English masculine personal name Ella and the Old English word toft (itself borrowed from Old Norse topt), which meant 'curtilage, messuage, plot of land with a building'. Thus the name once meant 'Ella's plot of land'. The ancient parish of Thorner covered in the wapentake of Skyrack in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The parish included the townships of Scarcroft and Shadwell, which became separate civil parishes in 1866. In 1245 it acquired a market, and the area around Main Street shows a typical Medieval layout of strips leading from a market street. As well as farming, pottery was a local industry in the Middle Ages, supplanted by the textile industry in the 18th and 19th centuries. This resulted in an increase in housing and a more widespread distribution of agricultural and industrial products The end of the annual agricultural show in 1924 indicates the lesser importance of farming to the community. In 1970 the main part was designated a Conservation Area by Leeds City Council: in 2009 the area was extended to include the area of Sandhills to the south. The church of St Peter is built in the later English gothic style and has a square embattled tower. In the graveyard is the memorial to John Philips, who lived to 118 years. A school was built by subscription in 1787, and is now the Parish Centre. Two former Methodist churches in Thorner are now closed, the nineteenth century former chapel having been converted to flats.

Thorner is situated close to the A1, A58 and A64 trunk roads. It is 8 miles (13 km) north east of Leeds city centre and 7 miles (11 km) to the south west of Wetherby. The underlying rock is limestone, some of which was burnt into lime and flagstone and slates were quarried. Travel to and from the village by public transport is via the number 7 bus route (operated by the Transdev Harrogate & District bus company). The journey takes roughly half an hour from Leeds, 20 minutes from Wetherby and an hour from Harrogate.

Thorner has no street lighting. The village has two public houses, the Mexborough Arms and The Fox. There is no longer a post office or a village shop, but there is a delicatessen, a hairdresser's and a restaurant, formerly The Beehive pub. Social amenities include the Parish Centre next to the church, the Victory Hall in Carr Lane, an over 60s centre, a bowling green, tennis courts and cricket and football pitches.