Thorney, Peterborough

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Thorney is a village in Peterborough

Other current and historical names

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

Thorney in historic gazetteers

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

Thorney.-- par. and ry. sta., Cambridgeshire, 7 miles NE. of Peterborough, 17,590 ac., pop. 2055; P.O, T.O. Thorney was the seat of a monastery founded in 662; the church includes portions of the ancient abbey church, rebuiltin 1128, and madeparochialin 1638.

Thorney in the Domesday Book

A village in Ely 1 hundred, in the county of Cambridgeshire.

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