Thornhill is a village in the county of Derbyshire, England, in the Peak District, south of Ladybower Reservoir and east of Castleton. A village is a human settlement commonly found in rural areas. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Derbyshire (pronounced Dar-bee-shur) is a county in the East Midlands of England, which boasts some of Englands most attractive scenery. ... England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Rock climbers on Ellis Eliminate (grade VS 4c) on Stanage. ... The Ladybower Reservoir is one of three reservoirs in the Upper Derwent Valley in Derbyshire, England. ... This article is about the English village. ...
Thornhill Hall was the seat of the Eyres who reputedly came to England with William the Conqueror. According to the Eyre legend, the original Eyre (Nigel Eyre) fought at the Battle of Hastings, where he lost a leg and could no longer play football for bamford F.C. He went on to work for the National Trust and is regularly seen driving around Bamford in his white transit van (give him the horn, he like its). There is little to substantiate this however. The hall and its manor was conveyed at about the beginning of the 15th century by the Thornhill family to the Eyres, of Hope. The Eyres seem to have used the name interchangeably with Blount, the earliest record of the family being Nicholas le Blount (Heyr), in 1204. They were officials, probably foresters, to the Norman Court, with branches in Derbyshire and Broham, in Wiltshire. William I ( 1028 – 9 September 1087), was King of England from 1066 to 1087, and as Guillaume II was Duke of Normandy from 1035 to 1087. ... The legend of the founder of the Eyre and Ayre families, known as Truelove (or True Love) appears in genealogies. ... (14th century - 15th century - 16th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500. ... // Events February - Byzantine emperor Alexius IV is overthrown in a revolution, and Alexius V is proclaimed emperor. ... The Normans (adapted from the name Northmen or Norsemen) were a mixture of the indigenous Gauls of France and the Viking invaders under the leadership of Rollo (Gange Rolf). ... Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large southern English county. ...
William Pole Thornhill, Esq., M.P., the Duke of Rutland, J. Bradley, T. Robinson, and J. and G. Gregory, Esqs., are the principal owners, the former of whom is lord of the manor.
The manor was held by the Bardolfs, as lords paramount, by the render of a pair of gilt spurs; from whom it passed to the Tibetots; afterwards to the Stevensons, from one of whose coheiress a
Thornhill, till the year 1809, when, in consequence of an exchange made under an enclosure act, the whole became vested in Mr.
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