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Raikes

 
 
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Raikes, or Rakes as it was originally known, is one of the older hamlets in Thornton.  It also remains very little changed today from the 1892 map shown opposite.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Raikes - 1892