25-652: Thorney and Thorny may refer to: Places in the United Kingdom [ edit ] Thorney, Cambridgeshire Thorney, Buckinghamshire Thorney, Nottinghamshire Thorney, Somerset Thorney Hill , Hampshire Thorney Island (Westminster) Thorney Island (West Sussex) Thorney Toll , Cambridgeshire Places in the United States [ edit ] Thorny Creek, West Virginia Thorny Flat Other [ edit ] ST Thorney ,
50-588: A unitary authority area in 1998. Thorney began as a Saxon settlement in about 500 AD. The existence of Thorney Abbey made the settlement an important ecclesiastical centre, and until 2014 was the most northerly point of the Anglican Diocese of Ely . By 2007 the previous Thorney Abbey church, now the Church of St Mary and St Botolph, was part of the Deanery and Diocese of Peterborough . Following
75-491: A modern water supply and sewerage scheme. The neo-Jacobean Tankyard building, now known as Bedford Hall, included a 96 ft high water tower, erected in 1855, that supplied fresh water to the village. The building houses Thorney Heritage Museum, part of the Greater Fens Museum Partnership. The windmill on the outskirts dates from 1787 and contains six floors; it originally had six sails. During
100-565: A short time previously he had been Member of Parliament for the borough of Lyme Regis . In 1623 he was made Lord Lieutenant of Devon and on 3 May 1627 became Earl of Bedford on the death of his cousin Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford . In 1621 Russell was one of the thirty-three peers who petitioned James I on the prejudice caused to the English peerage by the lavish grant of Irish and Scottish titles of nobility. In 1628, during
125-489: A tugboat Thorny Hawkes (1852–1929), American baseball player Thorny Lea Golf Club , a country club in Massachusetts, US Tim Thorney (1955–2021), Canadian singer-songwriter Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Thorney . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
150-519: Is the Duke of Bedford Primary School which is next to Wisbech Road. There is also a specialist school at Park House for children with special educational needs. The village has a magazine called the Thorney Post , which is printed three times a year. The magazine has its own website. Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford PC (1587 – 9 May 1641)
175-642: The Dissolution of the Monasteries the estate became crown property and it was granted to John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford in 1550. At this time only a few hundred acres of the land was cultivatable. In the 1630s Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford spent a reputed £100,000 draining the fens, bringing almost all of the estate and parish of nearly 18,000 acres (7,284 ha) into agricultural use. A community of Walloon Protestant refugees , originally from areas of Flanders that are now northern France ,
200-631: The Peterborough unitary authority in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire , England. Located around eight miles (13 km) east of Peterborough city centre, on the A47 . Historically in the Isle of Ely , Thorney was transferred to the short-lived county of Huntingdon and Peterborough in 1965 and became part of the Peterborough district in 1974, on the merger into Cambridgeshire; the city became
225-538: The circulation of Sir Robert Dudley 's Proposition for His Majesty s Service (the others being William Seymour, Earl of Hertford and John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare ), was arrested on 5 November 1629, and was brought before the Star-chamber . The prosecution, however, was dropped when the real nature of the paper was discovered, and Bedford was quickly released. The Short Parliament meeting in April 1640 found
250-512: The debates on the Petition of Right , he supported the demands of the House of Commons, and was a member of the committee which reported against the king's right to imprison. In May he was sent down to Devon, ostensibly to assist in refitting the fleet returned from Rochelle, but according to report, on account of his opposition in the House of Lords. Bedford was one of the three peers implicated in
275-578: The earl as one of King Charles I leading opponents. He was greatly trusted by John Pym and Oliver St John , and is mentioned by Clarendon as among the "great contrivers and designers" in the House of Lords . In July 1640 he was among the peers who wrote to the Scottish leaders refusing to invite a Scottish army into England, but promising to stand by the Scots in all legal and honourable ways. His signature
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#1732766226718300-603: The guilt of Strafford , was anxious to save his life. In the midst of the parliamentary struggle, Bedford died of smallpox on 9 May 1641. Clarendon described him as "a wise man, and of too great and plentiful a fortune to wish the subversion of the government", and again referring to his death, said that "many who knew him well thought his death not unseasonable as well to his fame as his fortune, and that it rescued him as well from some possible guilt as from those visible misfortunes which men of all conditions have since undergone". In about 1631 with architect Inigo Jones , he built
325-407: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thorney&oldid=1227166784 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Thorney, Cambridgeshire Thorney is a village in
350-463: The original ones, but replicas based on the rotten originals, installed by the developer that built houses on the site of the station yard in the early 2000s. The concrete posts are the originals, however. The A47 bypass opened in Winter 2005. On 28 August 1976, a United States Air Force Lockheed C-141 Starlifter , 67-0006, on a flight from McGuire Air Force Base to RAF Mildenhall crashed near
375-410: The other undertakers were to receive ninety-five thousand acres of land, of which twelve thousand were to be set apart for the king, and the profits of forty thousand were to serve as a security for keeping up the drainage works. He spent a large sum of money on this work, and received 43,000 acres (174 km ) of land; but the project involved him in great difficulties. By 1637 he had spent £100,000 on
400-401: The square of Covent Garden , with the piazza and church of St. Paul's. He was threatened with a Star-chamber suit for contravening the proclamation against new buildings, but the matter seems to have been resolved by compromise. Bedford was the head of those who undertook to drain the great level of The Fens of Cambridgeshire , which were renamed the " Bedford Level " in his honour. He and
425-539: The undertaking but after various jealousies and difficulties, the king took the work into his own hands in 1638, making a further grant of land to the Earl. The work was not declared finished till March 1653, twelve years after Bedford's death. Bedford married Catherine Brydges (d. 1657), daughter of Giles Brydges, 3rd Baron Chandos and Frances Clinton . They lived at Corney House, Corney Reach, Chiswick . They had eight children: Lord Bedford died of smallpox in 1641 at
450-517: The village; the aircraft entered bad weather and the pilots lost control of the aircraft. The accident killed all 18 passengers and crew on board. A memorial is maintained on Thorney Dyke, for the lost aircrew. Panavia Tornado ZA605 crashed on Wednesday 10 December 1986. The aircraft had taken off at 6pm for night flying in Scotland and collided at 6.06pm, when turning north. The Tornado hit another Tornado ZA611 , which flew back, with part of
475-434: The war four German prisoners of war used it as a base during the day while working the land. Thorney railway station was on the old Peterborough to Wisbech line, with an additional station in the parish at Wryde . The station and the line were closed in the early 1960s. Little evidence to suggest a rail link now remains, apart from one set of wooden level crossing gates at the west side of Station Road; these gates are not
500-685: The wing missing. The Tornado crossed the A47, and skimmed rooftops, being seen by drivers. Five fire engines attended. The crew went to RAF Hospital Ely . In 2010, planning permission was given for two wind turbines on land at French Farm, near French Drove in Thorney parish. In 2011 REG WindPower announced plans to install a further four wind turbines at the French Farm site. As of 2013, other windfarms are proposed at Gores Farm, Willow Hall, Nuts Grove and Wryde Croft. The village's local school
525-583: Was afterwards forged by Thomas, Viscount Savile , in order to encourage the Scots to invade England. In the following September he was among those peers who urged Charles to call a parliament, to make peace with the Scots, and to dismiss his obnoxious ministers; and was one of the English commissioners appointed to conclude the Treaty of Ripon . When the Long Parliament met in November 1640, Bedford
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#1732766226718550-515: Was an English nobleman and politician . He built the square of Covent Garden , with the piazza and church of St. Paul's, employing Inigo Jones as his architect. He is also known for his pioneering project to drain The Fens of Cambridgeshire . He was the only son of William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh and his wife Elizabeth Long, to which barony he succeeded in August 1613. For
575-453: Was generally regarded as the leader of the parliamentarians. In February 1641 he was made a privy councillor , and during the course of some negotiations was promised the office of Lord High Treasurer . He was essentially a moderate man, and seemed anxious to settle the question of the royal revenue in a satisfactory manner. He did not wish to alter the government of the church, was on good terms with Archbishop Laud , and, although convinced of
600-471: Was known as Abbey House. The estate was sold to the tenants in 1910. Much of the village was built at the command of the Dukes of Bedford , who wished to have a healthy place in which their estate workers could live. In the mid-19th century many buildings were added to the designs of the architect S.S. Teulon , himself a descendant of Huguenots. The 7th Duke of Bedford 's model agricultural village included
625-501: Was settled here in the 17th century with their own church and minister, employing the ruins of the abbey for services in their own language. The Walloons had expertise in fenland drainage. The Russell family's rents from the Thorney estate increased from £300 in 1629 to £10,000 by the early 19th century. The family, whose main seat was at Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, occasionally resided at the manor house in Thorney village, which
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