Thwing, East Riding of Yorkshire


Thwing is a village in the Yorkshire Wolds, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It forms part of the civil parish of Thwing and Octon.

Description

Thwing is located in the Yorkshire Wolds in the civil parish of Thwing and Octon about west of the North Sea coast at Bridlington.
The village has a 12th-century Norman Church, and a pub known as The Falling Stone, previously The Rampant Horse, before 1976 the Raincliffe Arms.
The Falling Stone pub name is a reference to the Wold Cottage Meteorite, which fell nearby on 13 December 1795. A monument to its fall can be visited.
The church, as well as the post office and 'Pear Tree farmhouse' are listed buildings.
Thwing is the birth place of John Twenge

History

Thwing is thought to mean 'narrow strip of land', deriving from thvengr or thweng. The village is recorded in Domesday Book as Tuennc, in the hundred of Burton.
The church of All Saints dates from the 12th century. A market and fair began in Thwing in 1257.
A Wesleyan chapel was established in Thwing in the early 1800s. It was built around 1810, and rebuilt and enlarged around 1839.
From the 1850s to the start of the 21st century the extent of building development in the village was practically unchanged.