Thorndon
Thorndon is a locality in Mid Suffolk District, Suffolk, England. Thorndon is situated nearby to the locality Hestley Green, as well as near the hamlet Rishangles.Places of Interest
Highlights include Mid-Suffolk Light Railway and Church of All Saints.
Mid-Suffolk Light Railway
Museum
Photo: Ashley Dace, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway was a standard gauge railway intended to open up an agricultural area of central Suffolk; it took advantage of the reduced construction cost enabled by the Light Railways Act 1896.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Debenham and Eye.
Debenham
Photo: Andrew Hill, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Debenham is an attractive village in Suffolk. In pre-industrial England, wealth came from farming, especially from sheep and wool-processing. Debenham was one prosperous centre, already a substantial place when recorded in the Doomsday Book of 1086, and continued so through medieval times.
Eye
Photo: Adrian Cable, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eye is a market town and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district, in the north of the English county of Suffolk, about 4 miles south of Diss, 17.5 miles north of Ipswich and 23 miles south-west of Norwich.
Thorndon
Village
Photo: Jon Welch, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thorndon is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. The village is located around three miles south of Eye, close to the A140.
Thorndon
- Type: Locality
- Location: Mid Suffolk District, Suffolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.2689° or 52° 16′ 8″ northLongitude
1.1471° or 1° 8′ 50″ eastElevation
194 feet (59 metres)Open location code
9F43749W+HRGeoNames ID
7297306
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