X-Nico

unusual facts about Thornbury, South Gloucestershire


Flights

Joe Newcombe, Adam Cann and Joel Pearce come from Thornbury, a market town in South Gloucestershire approximately 12 miles (19 km) north of Bristol.


Battle of Deorham

The location of the Deorham is Hinton Hill near to Dyrham in South Gloucestershire.

Bradford, Devon

The parish, which lies about six miles east of the town of Holsworthy has part of its eastern boundary formed by the River Torridge, and it is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Milton Damerel, Shebbear, Black Torrington, Ashwater, Cookbury and Thornbury.

Bristol Supertram

The remaining funds were to come from the government and the local authorities of Bristol and South Gloucestershire.

Cookbury

The parish, which lies about five miles east of the town of Holsworthy, is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Thornbury, Bradford, Ashwater, Hollacombe, and Holsworthy Hamlets.

Falfield

Politically, Falfield comes under the constituency of Yate & Thornbury which is currently a Liberal Democrat seat held by Steve Webb MP, who is also Minister of State for Pensions.

Forden Gaer

Forden Gaer, Y Gaer and Lavrobrinta are respective English, Welsh and possible Latin names for the Roman fort in the township of Thornbury, in the parish of Forden, in the old county of Montgomeryshire, which now forms part of Powys, Wales .

Frenchay

Frenchay is a village, now part of Bristol, England, to the north east of the city, but located mainly in South Gloucestershire and the Civil Parish of Winterbourne.

Gregory Alan Thornbury

Thornbury was ordained in 1996 at the First Baptist Church (Southern Baptist) of Clarksville, Indiana.

GWR 4073 Class 7027 Thornbury Castle

One set of name and number plates for the 7027 are mounted on a wall of the main hall of The Castle School in Thornbury, South Gloucestershire.

Henbury Loop Line

The Henbury Loop Line, also known as the Filton to Avonmouth Line is a railway line following the boundary between Bristol and South Gloucestershire between the Severn Beach Line at Hallen Marsh Junction, Avonmouth and the Cross Country Route/South Wales Main Line at Filton.

John Cabot Academy

It is located east of Bristol, England in the Kingswood area of South Gloucestershire and is named after John Cabot, an explorer who set out from Bristol and reached the Americas in 1497.

Lam Brook

Streams from a number of springs issuing from the southern end of the Cotswold Hills at Lansdown, Toghill and Cold Ashton in South Gloucestershire converge at Ashcombe Farm near Langridge and the Lam Brook then runs in a generally southerly direction past Ashcombe House and the villages of Upper Swainswick and Lower Swainswick.

Longueville-sur-Scie

The village was formerly known as Longueville-le-Giffard, one of its sons was Osbern Giffard, who gave his name to Stoke Gifford, South Gloucestershire, England.

Manor of Dyrham

The Manor of Dyrham was a former manorial estate in the parish of Dyrham in South Gloucestershire, England.

Power Stream

Through a partnership with the Town of Collingwood in the operation of Collus PowerStream the company also serves customers in Collingwood, Stayner, Creemore and Thornbury.

Rhyne

Other examples in England still exist in the Framilode and Saul area of Gloucestershire, where they drain into either the River Severn or Sharpness Canal, and around Easter Compton, South Gloucestershire.

Rob Higgitt

For the 2011/12 season, Rob is player-coach at South West 1 West club Thornbury RFC working alongside former Wales captain Gareth Llewellyn.

Robert Marnock

He left this post in 1863 but continued to practise in his profession as a landscape gardener until 1879, during this time he returned to Sheffield for two commissions, Thornbury in 1865 and Weston Park in 1873.

Shore Tilbe Irwin + Partners

Leonard Shore died in 1989, and as he had no immediate family, the Shore Foundation was created in his memory to assist the University of Toronto, and the L.E. Shore Memorial Library in Thornbury, Ontario.

Stoke Lodge

Stoke Lodge is a suburb of Bristol, England, developed in the 50s and early 60s on farmland to the south of Patchway Common, South Gloucestershire and east of the A38 trunk road.

Thornbury Castle

Following the Duke's death Thornbury was confiscated by King Henry VIII of England, who stayed at the castle for ten days in August 1535 with his queen, Anne Boleyn.

Thornbury, New Zealand

Thornbury is a small township on the east bank of the lower Aparima River, in western Southland, New Zealand.

Weare Giffard

"In memory of Hugh Fortescue, Esquire, and of Elizabeth his wife, daughter of John Chichester Esquire and also of John Fortescue, the son of them, Esquire, and of Mary his wife, daughter of Humphrey Speccot of Thornbury, Esquire.

Woodacott

Woodacott is sometimes regarded as part of the nearby village of Thornbury.


see also