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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "GREAT THURLOW":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ASHFIELD (Great)	Suffolk	Great) , a parish in Stow district, Suffolk; 2½ miles N of Elmswell r. station, and 7½ NW of Stowmarket. It has a post office of the name of Ashfield, under Bury St. Edmunds. Acres, 1,546. Real property, £2,769. Pop., 408. Houses, 78. Ashfield Lodge is now the seat of Sir HenryBlake, Bart., and was the birthplace of Lord Chancellor Thurlow	Imperial
  CAMBRIDGE	Cambridgeshire	CAMBRIDGE , a university town, the capital of Cambridgeshire. It stands on the Via Devana, the river Cam, and the Eastern	Imperial
  CANTERBURY	Kent Surrey	great hall, water house, granary, refectory, frater-house, brew-house, bake-house, and domestic buildings, among which great part of the dormitory remains, with a gateway and steps. At the northwest angle is the Norman precinct gate of the priory, which stood on the south side of the court; the back entrance to it, or Larder Gate, still remains. At the south-west angle is the arched door which led to the palace. The strangers' hall was on the west side. In the north-west angle is likewise the Norman staircase, with an open arcade which led into the north	Imperial
  Duniphail or Dunphail	Moray	Thurlow (cre. 1792), and in the same year assumed the additional surnames of CummingBruce. He owns 10,518 acres in the shire, valued at £1182 per annum. Dunpbail Castle, which crowns a green conical hill, three-fourths engirt by a narrow ravine, supposed to have been at one time the channel of the Divie, was vainly besieged in the beginning of the 14th century by Randolph, Earl of Moray, after the 'Battle of the Lost Standard,' and is now a fragmentary ruin. The present mansion, erected in 1828-29, from designs by Playfair, of Edinburgh, and considerably enlarged	Groome
  ELY	Cambridgeshire	Great Abington, Little Abington, Babraham, Bottisham, Dullingham, Duxford-St. John, Hinxton, Ickleton, Linton, Pampisford, Sawston, Shudy-Camps, Stetchworth, Swaffham-St. Mary, Swaffham-St. Cyriac, Swaffham-Bulbeck, Whittlesford, Great Wilbraham, and West Wratting; and the p. curacies of Bottisham-Lode, Willingham, Stow-with-Quy, and West Wickham. The deanery of Clare contains the rectories of Barnardiston, Great Bradley, Little Bradley, Chedbnrgh, Dalham, Depden, Kentford, Hawkedon-St. Mary, Keddington, Lydgate, Ousden, Stansfield, Stradishall, Little Thurlow	Imperial
  Kinnaird House	Stirlingshire	great Abyssinian traveller, James Bruce (1730-94), who here was born, here spent his later years, and here died through a fall downstairs. He was sixth in descent from the Rev. Robert Bruce of Kinnaird (1559-1631), the noted Presbyterian divine; and both are buried at Larbert. His great-granddaughter, Lady Elma Bruce, the eighth Earl of Elgin's eldest daughter, in 1864 married the present Lord Thurlow	Groome
  LONDON	London London	Thurlow, in Great Ormondstreet; Lord Chancellor Cowper, in Great George-street, Hanover-square; Lord Chancellor Shaftesbury, in Shaftesbury House, Aldersgate	Imperial
  RISBRIDGE	Suffolk	Great Bradley, Little Bradley, Great Thurlow, and Little Thurlow; the sub-district of Clare, containing the parishes of Clare, Stoke	Imperial
  Thurlow, Great	Suffolk	Thurlow, Great , par. and vil., Suffolk, 3½ m. N. of Haverhill,2023ac., pop.387; gives title to Lord Thurlow, descendant	Bartholomew
  THURLOW (Great)	Suffolk	THURLOW (Great) , a parish, with a village, in Risbridge district, Suffolk; 3¼ miles N by E of Haverhill r. station	Imperial
  Thurlow, Little	Suffolk	Thurlow, Little , par. and vil., Suffolk, adjacent to Great Thurlow, 1470 ac., pop. 338; P.O., T.O.; Thurlow Park is an Elizabethan	Bartholomew

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