Thornton
Thornton is a village and civil parish on the River Great Ouse about 3.5 miles north-east of Buckingham in the unitary authority area of Buckinghamshire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Residential area
- Description: village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England
- Also known as: “Thornton, Buckinghamshire”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of St Mary and Church of All Saints.
Church of St Mary
Church
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Mary is situated 1½ miles southwest of Thornton.
Church of All Saints
Church
Photo: Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of All Saints is situated 2 miles southeast of Thornton.
Church of St John the Evangelist, Wicken
Church
Photo: Ian Rob, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St John the Evangelist, Wicken is situated 2½ miles north of Thornton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wicken and Singleborough.
Wicken
Village
Photo: Ian Rob, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wicken is a village and civil parish in the English county of Northamptonshire. It is about one mile north of the A422 road between Milton Keynes and Buckingham and forms part of West Northamptonshire district. Wicken is situated 2 miles north of Thornton.
Singleborough
Hamlet
Singleborough is a hamlet in the parish of Great Horwood, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located about a mile from the main village. Singleborough is situated 2½ miles south of Thornton.
Passenham
Village
Photo: Richard Schmidt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Passenham is a small village in south-west Northamptonshire, England. It is just north of the River Great Ouse, which forms the boundary with Buckinghamshire, and close to Stony Stratford in Milton Keynes. The village's name means 'Passa's hemmed-in land'. Passenham is situated 3 miles northeast of Thornton.
Thornton
- Categories: village and civil parish
- Location: Thornton, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.01577° or 52° 0′ 57″ northLongitude
-0.90579° or 0° 54′ 21″ westPopulation
165Elevation
259 feet (79 metres)Open location code
9C4X238V+8MOpenStreetMap ID
way 437166549OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialGeoNames ID
2635976Wikidata ID
Q2551138
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Thornton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تهرنتون”
- Cebuano: “Thornton”
- Chinese: “Thornton”
- Dutch: “Thornton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تهرنتون”
- French: “Thornton”
- Irish: “Thornton”
- Italian: “Thornton (Buckinghamshire)”
- Italian: “Thornton”
- Ladin: “Thornton (Buckinghamshire)”
- Ladin: “Thornton”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Thornton (Buckinghamshire)”
- Persian: “تورنتون، باکینگهامشر”
- Polish: “Thornton”
- Swedish: “Thornton, Buckinghamshire”
- Swedish: “Thornton”
- Turkish: “Thornton, Buckinghamshire”
- Welsh: “Thornton, Swydd Buckingham”
- Welsh: “Thornton”
- “Thornton”
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Localities in the Area
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Thornton”. Photo: Philip Jeffrey, CC BY-SA 2.0.