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Thorpe Thewles
Thorpe Thewles in England North East, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Thorpe Thewles is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Thorpe Thewles is a village which had history dating back to the 12th century. The village shares a parish with Grindon and is in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, Northern England. It lies near the A177 road between Stockton-on-Tees and Sedgefield.
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Background
History
Galfried de Torp was a landowner in the mid-12th century. Members of the Thorp family donated land to the monks of Finchale Priory. The Fulthrope family occupied the manor from 1346 to 1629 while the Kendals, the Sedgewicks, the Tweddells and the Blackstones also owned land from the 16th to 18th centuries. a school was built by the Marchioness of Londonderry in 1824, the Holy Trinity Church was built in 1849 but demolished in the 1880s, the railway viaduct was completed in 1877 and the station opened in 1882 and both the St James Church and the Wesleyan Methodist chapel were established in 1887.
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- Coordinates
- 54.6000, -1.3833
Sources
- wikidata: Q7796713 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Thorpe Thewles (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Thorpe Thewles?
- Thorpe Thewles is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.6000°, -1.3833°.