Thornley
Thornley is a village in Weardale, County Durham, England, about 1 mile south of Tow Law. In 2001 it had a population of 184.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Vivienne Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet with 184 residents
- Description: village in Wolsingham, County Durham, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Thornley, County Durham”, “Thornley, Weardale”, and “Thornley, Wolsingham”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Bartholomew and Bradley Hall fortified house and underground passages, moated site, pillow mound and fishponds.
Bradley Hall fortified house and underground passages, moated site, pillow mound and fishponds
Ruins
Photo: Les Hull, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bradley Hall fortified house and underground passages, moated site, pillow mound and fishponds is a ruins.
Harperley POW Camp 93
Photo: Rolyat29, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Harperley POW Camp 93 is a surviving purpose-built World War II Prisoner of War camp built to accommodate up to 1,400 inmates at Fir Tree near Crook, County Durham in the northeast of England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tow Law and Inkerman.
Tow Law
Village
Photo: Smiler03, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tow Law is a town and civil parish in County Durham, England. It is situated a few miles to the south of Consett and 5 miles to the north west of Crook.
Inkerman
Hamlet
Photo: Alan Murray-Rust, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Inkerman was a village in County Durham, England. Built in 1854–1855 a short distance to the north-west of Tow Law to house ironstone miners, it was named after the victorious Battle of Inkerman of the Crimean War, similarly to Balaclava, another County Durham village. Inkerman is situated 1½ miles north of Thornley.
Sunniside
Hamlet
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sunniside is a small rural village to the east of Tow Law and north of Crook in County Durham, England. Sunniside has one pub, and a former post office. Sunniside is situated 1½ miles northeast of Thornley.
Thornley
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Wolsingham, County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.72928° or 54° 43′ 45″ northLongitude
-1.82094° or 1° 49′ 15″ westPopulation
184Elevation
709 feet (216 metres)Open location code
9C6WP5HH+PJOpenStreetMap ID
node 29345651OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
12263948Wikidata ID
Q7796464
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Thornley” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Thornley, Weardale”
- Irish: “Thornley”
- Polish: “Thornley (Weardale)”
- Polish: “Thornley”
- Swedish: “Thornley, Wolsingham”
- Welsh: “Thornley, Weardale”
- Welsh: “Thornley”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Thornley Village Hall and The Birches.
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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 “Thornley”. Photo: Vivienne Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.