IN Peter Walker’s Rural View article in the Gazette & Herald on November 26, the village of Thorpe is mentioned, but its whereabouts as yet to be found.

It is a small hamlet just south of Grassington/north of Burnsall off the B6160.

The access roads are very narrow and should not be approached from Threapland.

My husband’s family lived there in the late 1700s in a small roughly-built random stoned cottage. As he obviously did well, a Georgian front was added and the house became known as Featherstonehaugh House. It is now called Stoney Croft.

Up to 20 people were shoemakers and the monks walked from Ripon for their shoes to be made/repaired. Some of the family were baptised and married at the “local” church in nearby Linton and others at Burnsall.

Cynthia Hinchliffe, Snainton