Thorne, England

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About Thorne, England

These are pictures of Thorne, South Yorkshire, England. Most of the first pictures posted here are of the St. Nicholas Thorne Parish Church, the home church of the Canby family.

All photographs of sights and sites in Thorne and the area are welcome.

A little information about Thorne (more from www.thorne-moorends.gov.uk/history/history_notes.html ):

Thorne became a permanent settlement in the Anglo-Saxon period about thirteen centuries ago, but we know from the finds of flint tools and weapons, that men of the Neolithic culture used this land; as also did the people of the Bronze Age and Iron Age from the finds still being made in the peat diggings of the Moors.

Tthe DOMESDAY SURVEY entry for Thorne in 1086 shows that Thorne possessed five sokemen, eleven villeins, four caracutes of land and four oxen plough teams; which would sustain a population of about 100 souls. There were also 20 fish-garths yielding twenty thousand eels a year. Another valuable source of food, deer and wildfowl, were also plentiful in the undrained wetlands.

Between 1626 and the Civil War period Cornelius Vermuyden, a Dutch drainage engineer, drained the wetlands to make valuable farm land. Financial backers from the Continent encouraged the settlement of the reclaimed lands, and hundreds came over from Holland, Belgium and some Huguenots from France