Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Thorney. You may be able to find further references to Thorney in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Thorney	parish and railway station	Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Thorney.

Place	Type of entry	Source
English Drove	hamlet	Bartholomew
French Drove	hamlet with railway station	Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Thorney within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	1
William Camden	Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
William Camden	Huntingdon and Northampton	1
Thomas Pennant	Tyringham to Woburn	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Eye	0	2
Coates	0	2
Eastrea	0	2
Crowland	18	3
Borough Fen	0	2
Parson Drove	0	2
Newborough	0	2
Whittlesey	2	2
Murrow	0	2
Gedney Hill	0	1
Whaplode Drove	0	2
Newark	0	1
Sutton St Edmund	0	2
Eastfield	0	2
Dogsthorpe	0	2
Guyhirn	0	3
Gunthorpe	0	2
Paston	0	2
Peterborough	53	6
Stanground	0	3