Thorney
Proper noun
Meaning
A surname.
A hamlet in Iver parish, south Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref TQ0479).
A village and civil parish in the city of Peterborough district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL2804).
A village and civil parish in Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK8573).
A small village in Kingsbury Episcopi parish, South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4223).
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Examples
Locks were planned at Stanmoor, Langport, and Muchelney, with a half-lock at Thorney.
On one occasion a division on Service went home in the middle of blockading a Danish army on Thorney Island, its provisions consumed and its term expired, before the king came to relieve them.
Emergency services were called to the A47 Thorney bypass at the New Cut roundabout at around 2.17am.
It replaced a footbridge in 1829 or 1830. citation At Muchelney the Westover Bridge carries a minor road over the river, and another minor road crosses on the Thorney Bridge close to the Thorney (or silent) Mill and a lock.
As the NF.14 was replaced, some 14 were converted to training aircraft as the NF(T).14 and given to No. 2 Air Navigation School on RAF Thorney Island until transferring to No. 1 Air Navigation School at RAF Stradishall where they served until 1965.
This happened first at the Old Minster in Winchester, before the reformers built new foundations and refoundations at Thorney, Peterborough, and Ely, among other places.