We could not match "THORNLEY" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, or as a postcode. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 17 possible matches we have found for you:

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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "THORNLEY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CHIPPING	Lancashire	Thornley-with-Wheatley. Acres, 8, 756. Real property, £8, 217. Pop., 1, 483. Houses, 311. The property is much	Imperial
  DURHAM	County Durham	Thornley, Shadforth, New Seaham, Trimdon, Ford, Hendon, Ryhope, Deptford-St. Andrew, and Deptford-St. Thomas. The deanery of Stockton contains	Imperial
  Helme Park	County Durham	Helme Park , hamlet, Thornley par., Durham, near Wolsingham.	Bartholomew
  Kelloe	County Durham	Thornley, Wingate, &c.), 11,236 ac., pop. 13,398; township, 1596 ac., pop. 937; vil., 6½ miles SE. of Durham	Bartholomew
  KELLOE	County Durham	Thornley, Wingate, Coxhoe, Quarrington, and Cassop. Acres, 11, 119. Real property, £46, 862; of which £27, 435 are in mines	Imperial
  KNIGHTS-HOLE	County Durham	Thornley hill, 4 miles SW of Easington. It seems partly natural, partly enlarged by art; it communicates with an ancient	Imperial
  MARSTON	Warwickshire	Warwick; on the river Cole, 3¼ miles SW of Coleshill. Pop., 246. Marston Hall is the seat of H. Thornley, Esq.	Imperial
  Thornley	County Durham	Thornley .-- eccl. dist., township, and vil. with ry. sta. (2 miles E.), Kelloe par., in co. and 6 miles SE. of Durham	Bartholomew
  Thornley	County Durham	Thornley , eccl. dist., Wolsingham par., Durham, 1½ mile S. of Tow Law, pop. 1285.	Bartholomew
  THORNLEY	County Durham	THORNLEY , a village, a township, and a chapelry, in Kelloe parish, Durhamshire. The village stands on the Hartlepooland Durham railway	Imperial
  THORNLEY	County Durham	THORNLEY , a chapelry in Wolsingham parish, Durham; 1½ mile S of Towlaw r. station. Post town, Towlaw, under Darlington	Imperial
  Thornley with Wheatley	Lancashire	Thornley with Wheatley , township, Chipping par., NE. Lancashire, 7 miles W. of Clitheroe and 9 miles NE. of Preston, 3221 ac., pop. 349.	Bartholomew
  THORNLEY-WITH-WHEATLEY	Lancashire	THORNLEY-WITH-WHEATLEY , a township in Chipping parish, Lancashire; 7½ miles W by S of Clitheroe. Acres, 3,179. Real	Imperial
  Wheatley	Lancashire	Wheatley , Lancashire. See THORNLEY WITH WHEATLEY.	Bartholomew
  Wheatley Hill	County Durham	Wheatley Hill , 2m. from Thornley sta., Durham; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Wolsingham	County Durham	Thornley and parts of Tow Law and Frosterley), 24,016 ac., pop. 7895; town, on river Wear, 10 miles NW. of Bishop	Bartholomew
  WOLSINGHAM	County Durham	rectory in the diocese of Durham. Value, £900.* Patron, the Bishop of Chester. The vicarage of Thornley is a separate benefice.	Imperial

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