Thornhill Hall

for the Thornhill Family, before they intermarried with the Saviles.]] In the reign of Henry III, Thornhill Hall was the seat of the Thornhill family who intermarried with the De Fixbys and Babthorpes in the reigns of Edward I and Edward II. In 1370, in the reign of Edward III, Elizabeth Thornhill, the only child of Simon Thornhill, married Sir Henry Savile extinguishing the family line of Thornhills which subsequently passed down the Savile line. Thornhill Hall became the principal seat of the powerful Savile family. The Saviles later intermarried with the Calverley family, so that when Sir John Savile died in 1503 in Thornhill, he left provision in his will for his sister Alice, who had…