Thorley

Other current and historical names

Chronicles

Built-Up Area: Bishop's Stortford
Parish/Community: Bishop's Stortford
District/Borough: East Hertfordshire
County: Hertfordshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Hamlet

Latitude/Longitude: 51°51'1"N 0°8'41"E
Eastings/Northings: 547833, 219053
OS Grid: TL478190
Mapcode Local: GBR LCL.TQW
Mapcode Global: VHHLV.GRG8

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Thorley within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Thorley in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Thorley.-- par., Herts, 2 miles SW. of Bishop Stortford, 1536 ac., pop. 415; P.O.

Thorley in the Domesday Book

A village in Braughing hundred, in the county of Hertfordshire.

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

1st Manor
- Overlord in 1066: Esger the constable
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Godgyth of Thorley
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Geoffrey de Mandeville
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Geoffrey de Mandeville
- Taxable Value: 4 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £10 in 1066; £5 in 1070; £8 in 1086
- Households: 5 villagers; 9 smallholders; 11 slaves; 1 priest; 1 men-at-arm
- Plough Teams: 4 lord's ploughs; 3 ¹⁄₂ men's ploughs (8 plough lands)
- Meadow: 2 ploughs
- Woodland: 40 pigs
- Mills: 1, value 10 shillings
2nd Manor
- Overlord in 1066: Godgyth of Thorley
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Edsi, man of Godgyth
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Bishop of London
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Rodhere (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £1 10/- in 1066; £1 in 1070; £1 in 1086
- Households: 2 slaves
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough (1 plough land)
- Meadow: ¹⁄₂ plough
- Woodland: 2 pigs

British Place Names

Thorley, Hertfordshire

Thorley is a hamlet in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire

Thorley in historic gazetteers

Thorley in the Domesday Book