Arrathorne

{{Short description|Hamlet and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England}} {{Use British English|date=March 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} {{Infobox UK place | country = England | static_image_name = Cottages at Arrathorne.jpg | static_image_width = | static_image_caption = Cottages at Arrathorne | coordinates = {{coord|54.3348|-1.69218|display=inline,title}} | official_name = Arrathorne | population = | population_ref = about 50 | unitary_england = North Yorkshire | lieutenancy_england = North Yorkshire | region = Yorkshire and the Humber | constituency_westminster = | post_town = BEDALE | postcode_district = DL8 | postcode_area = DL | dial_code = 01677 | os_grid_reference = SE201932 }} '''Arrathorne''' is a hamlet and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. The settlement is {{convert|9|km|order=flip|0}} south of Richmond, {{convert|9|km|order=flip|0}} north-west of Bedale and {{convert|9|km|order=flip|0}} east of Leyburn.<ref name=":OS:">{{cite map|title =Northallerton & Ripon |map =99 |year =2016 |scale =1:50,000 |series =landranger |publisher =Ordnance Survey |isbn =9780319261972 }}</ref> The name has been recorded variously as Ergthorn, Erchethorn, Erghethorn, Erethorn and Arrowthorne.<ref>{{cite web |title=Arrathorne :: Survey of English Place-Names |url=http://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/North+Riding+of+Yorkshire/Patrick+Brompton/53286b32b47fc40bc6000570-Arrathorne |website=epns.nottingham.ac.uk |accessdate=11 May 2020}}</ref> It means ''the shieling in a thorny thicket''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ekwall |first1=Eilert |title=The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names |date=1947 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford |oclc=12542596 |page=12 |edition=3}}</ref> This may have referred to broom, the namesake of neighbouring Patrick Brompton, the parish to which Arrathorne has belonged, in the wapentake of Hang East.<ref>{{cite web |title=Genuki: Patrick Brompton, Yorkshire (North Riding) |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/PatrickBrompton |website=www.genuki.org.uk |accessdate=11 May 2020 }}</ref>

From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Richmondshire, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

The nearest city to Arrathorne is Ripon. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 61. The population in 2011 census was 90 with an estimated population of the same number in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|title=2015 Population Estimates|url=https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/sites/default/files/fileroot/About%20the%20council/North%20Yorkshire%20statistics/Parish_mid-year_population_estimates_2015.pdf|website=northyorks.gov.uk|accessdate=16 March 2018|page=15|format=PDF|archive-date=4 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220604015709/https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/sites/default/files/fileroot/About%20the%20council/North%20Yorkshire%20statistics/Parish_mid-year_population_estimates_2015.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> It has neither pub nor public telephone box and is not on a bus route. The nearest bus stop is in Hunton, just over a mile away. The nearest national rail station on the East Coast Main Line is in Northallerton {{convert|18|km|order=flip|0}} away.<ref name=":OS:" />

There is one recorded descriptive gazetteer entry, in John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles, "Arrathorne, township, North-Riding Yorkshire, 5 miles NE. of Leyburn, 671 ac., pop. 62."<ref>{{cite book|last=Bartholomew|first=John|title=Gazetteer of the British Isles|year=1887|publisher=Bartholomew|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry_page.jsp?text_id=1572690|accessdate=4 February 2014}}</ref>

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Category:Villages in North Yorkshire Category:Civil parishes in North Yorkshire