Is it plain old Thornton or did they tag la Dale at the end to make it sound posh 😉 A bit like our lovely Super Mare, I still can't figure out how super we are.
Doesn't Yorkshire have quite a good rep nowadays, they were saying if Yorkshire was a country, it would have ranked quite high in the Olympics medal table or something like that
Good point and I'm glad you asked! I couldn't find anything on why it's 'le'. Except doing a deeper search just now has turned up the reason, and you're correct. To make it
sound poshmore marketable in the fierce world of pretty village tourism!http://www.ryedale.co.uk/ryedale/villages/thorntonledale/index.html#:~:text=It%20is%20in%20fact%20one%20of%20the%20most,area%2C%20to%20distinguish%20the%20village%20from%20other%20Thorntons.
In the 2012 Olympics, we would have come 7th in the medal table!