Thorley
Thorley is a village in the civil parish of Yarmouth, on the Isle of Wight, England. It is 1+1⁄2 miles from Yarmouth in the northwest of the island and is 9 miles west from Newport.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mypix, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Mypix, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village on the Isle of Wight, in England, UK
- Also known as: “Thorley, Isle of Wight”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Swithun’s Church, Thorley and Yarmouth Castle.
St Swithun’s Church, Thorley
Church
Photo: Hassocks5489, CC0.
St Swithun's Church, Thorley is a parish church in the Church of England located in Thorley, Isle of Wight.
Yarmouth Castle
Castle
Photo: Christophe.Finot, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Yarmouth Castle is an artillery fort built by Henry VIII in 1547 to protect Yarmouth Harbour on the Isle of Wight from the threat of French attack. Just under 100 feet across, the square castle was initially equipped with 15 artillery guns and a garrison of 20 men.
Thorley Manor
Building
Photo: Basher Eyre, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thorley Manor is a manor house just outside Yarmouth, on the Isle of Wight, England. Built in 1712, it features a modillion cornice, hipped roof, as well as tall chimneys.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bouldnor and Wellow.
Bouldnor
Hamlet
Bouldnor is a hamlet near Yarmouth on the west coast of the Isle of Wight in southern England. It is the location of Bouldnor Battery, a gun battery emplacement.
Wellow
Hamlet
Photo: Mypix, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wellow is a village in the civil parish of Shalfleet, on the Isle of Wight, England. It is located about two miles east of Yarmouth in the northwest of the island.
Bouldnor Cliff
Locality
Photo: Ranger Steve, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bouldnor Cliff is a submerged prehistoric settlement site in the Solent. The site dates from the Mesolithic era and is in approximately 11 metres of water just offshore of the village of Bouldnor on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom.
Thorley
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.69693° or 50° 41′ 49″ northLongitude
-1.47097° or 1° 28′ 16″ westElevation
39 feet (12 metres)Open location code
9C2WMGWH+QJOpenStreetMap ID
node 252821218OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Danish to Welsh—“Thorley” goes by many names.
- Danish: “Thorley”
- Dutch: “Thorley”
- Irish: “Thorley”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thorley”
- Polish: “Thorley (Wight)”
- Polish: “Thorley”
- Swedish: “Thorley, Isle of Wight”
- Swedish: “Thorley”
- Welsh: “Thorley, Ynys Wyth”
- Welsh: “Thorley”
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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 “Thorley”. Photo: Mypix, CC BY-SA 4.0.