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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 "WEST THORNEY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BINSEY	Oxfordshire	West Midland railway, 1½ mile NNW of Oxford. It was originally called Thorney, from a profusion of thorns around	Imperial
  CAMBRIDGESHIRE	Cambridgeshire	west, north-north-westward, from Royston, toward Godmanchester. The Via Devana went across the south centre, north-westward from the vicinity of Linton, past Cambridge toward Godmanchester. The Devil's Ditch goes across the south-east, a little west of Burwell. Traces of British earthworks occur at the Devil's Ditch and at Fleam Dyke. Roman coins, urns, and other remains, have been found at Cambridge, Ely, March, Soham, Chatteris, Wilney, the Gogmagog hills, and other places. Remains of Abbeys and priories occur at Thorney	Imperial
  CHICHESTER	Sussex	West Angmering, Arundel, Barnham, Binstead, Burpham, Bury, Climping, Felpham, Ferring, East Preston, Leominster, Little Hampton, Madehurst, Poleing, Preston, Rustington, Tortington, Walberton, and Yapton; and the p. curacy of North Stoke. The deanery of Boxgrove comprises the rectories of Almodington, Earnley, Birdham, North Marden, Merston, Racton, Selsey, West Stoke, West Thorney	Imperial
  DOWNPATRICK	Down	DOWNPATRICK , an unincorporated borough, market, and post-town, and parish, in the barony of LECALE, county of DOWN, (of which	Lewis:Ireland
  ELY	Cambridgeshire	Thorney, and the borough of Wisbeach. Its length, north-westward, is 28 miles; and its extreme breadth is 17 miles; and its area is 226, 005 acres. Pop., 64, 595. Houses, 14, 115. The Isle is part of Bedford Level: which see. It is chiefly separated from the rest of the county by the old channel of the Ouse. It once was nearly all a marsh, subject to be flooded by the streams which creep through it; and it has been rendered habitable and cultivable only by an elaborate cutting and maintaining of artificial drainage. Its southern side is diversified	Imperial
  KINGSBURY-EPISCOPI	Somerset	West Lambrook, and East Lambrook, and the hamlets of Middle Lambrook, Southay, and Thorney. Acres, 3, 646. Real property, £9, 648. Pop., 1,838Houses	Imperial
  LINCOLN	Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire	West Bridgeford, Clifton, Cotgrave, Gotham, East Leake, West Leake, Normanton-on-Soar, Plumtree, Stanford-on-Soar, Sutton-Bonnington-St. Anne, Sutton-Bonnington-St. Michael, Tollerton, Widmerpool, and Wilford; the vicarages of Bradmore, Bunny, and Ruddington; and the p. curacies of Edwalton, Kingston-on-Soar, and Thrumpton. The deanery of Newark-first contains the rectories of South Collingham, Cromwell, Elston, Fledborough, and Winthorpe; the vicarages of Barnby-in-the-Willows, North Clifton, North Collingham, Holme, Laxton, Marnham, Normanton, South Scarle, Sutton, Thorney	Imperial
  NEWARK	Nottinghamshire	Thorney, and South Scarle, and the extra-parochial tract of Meering, electorally in Notts, and the parishes of North Scarle and Swinderby, electorally in Lincoln; the sub-district of Bassingham, containing the parishes of Barnby-in-the-Willows and Coddington, electorally in Notts, and the parishes of Bassingham, Thurlby, Norton-Disney, Stapleford, Carlton-le-Moorland, Brant-Broughton, and Beckingham, electorally in Lincoln; the sub-district of Bennington, containing the parishes of Farndon, Hawton, Balderton, Cotham, and Kilvington, and the township of Staunton, electorally in Notts, and the parishes of Long Bennington, Westborough, Foston, East Allington, West	Imperial
  NOTTINGHAMSHIRE or Notts	Nottinghamshire	Thorney Hall, Thoroton Hall, Thrumpton Hall, Thurgarton Priory, Upton Hall, Watnall-Cantelupe Hall, Wellow Hall, West Retford Hall, West Retford	Imperial
  Thorney, West	Sussex	Thorney, West , par., Sussex, in Chichester harbour, 6½ miles SW. of Chichester, 1238 ac. and 1913 tidal water and foreshore	Bartholomew
  THORNEY (West)	Sussex	THORNEY (West) , a parish in Westbourne district, Sussex; within Chichester harbour, 3 miles SW of Bosham r. station, and 6½ WSW of Chichester	Imperial
  WESTMINSTER	Middlesex	West-Minster in distinction from the original St. Paul's of London, which was called East-Minster; it grew slowly around that edifice, on a marshy spot, designated Thorney	Imperial

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