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Spennithorne is a village and civil parish in lower Wensleydale in North Yorkshire, England. The village is situated 2 miles (3.2km) south-east of the market town Leyburn, on a slight elevation above the River Ure, which forms the southern boundary of the parish. The village is over looked by the tower of St. Michael's church.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.lower-wensleydale.com/AbouttheArea/TownsVillages/Spennithorne.aspx )〕 Spennithorne is approximately east from Yorkshire Dales National Park containing a range of wildlife habitats. The village was historically in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and in 1974 became part of the Richmondshire district in the new county of North Yorkshire. ==History== Although Spennithorne dates from Saxon times, there are very few facts recorded relating to its history. At the period of the Norman Conquest, Alan Rufus, to whom the Conqueror gave the whole of Richmondshire, distributed his lands among his retainers in feudal fashion, and in this division Spennithorne and Middleham were allotted to his brother, Ribal Fitzrandolph.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Spennithorne/Spennithorne90.html )〕 In the ''Domesday Book'' Spennithorne is referred to as "Speningtorp" which Dr. Whitaker states as the thorp or village of the "Spening", or a prickly thorn. Between 1856 the village was served by Spennithorne railway station, north-east of the village. In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' described Spennithorne as:
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