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| Name | Thorley |
| Alt names | Torlei | source: Domesday Book (1985 ed.) p 138 | | Thorley Park | source: from redirect | | Old Thorley | source: hamlet in parish | | Thorley Wash | source: hamlet in parish | | Thorley Street | source: hamlet in parish |
| Type | Parish |
| Coordinates | 51.85°N 0.15°E |
| Located in | Hertfordshire, England |
| See also | Braughing Hundred, Hertfordshire, England | hundred in which it was located | | Bishop's Stortford Rural, Hertfordshire, England | rural district in which it was located 1894-1895 | | Hadham Rural, Hertfordshire, England | rural district in which it was located 1895-1935 | | Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England | town to which substantial part was transferred 1935 | | Braughing Rural, Hertfordshire, England | rural district in which remainder was located 1935-1974 | | East Hertfordshire District, Hertfordshire, England | district municipality covering the area since 1974 |
- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Thorley is a village and civil parish in East Hertfordshire District of Hertfordshire, England. The parish includes the hamlets of Thorley Street, Thorley Wash and Old Thorley, and is bordered at the north by the market town of Bishop's Stortford. In the UK census of 2011 it had a population of 626.
For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Thorley, Hertfordshire.
The following description from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 is provided by the website A Vision of Britain Through Time (University of Portsmouth Department of Geography).
- THORLEY, a parish in Bishop-Stortford [registration] district, Herts; 2 miles SSW of Bishop-Stortford [railway] station. It has a post-office under Bishop-Stortford. Acres: 1,516. Real property: 2,957. Population: 388. Houses: 84. Twyford House is the seat of J. Bax, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value: £542. Patron: the Bishop of [Rochester]. The church was repaired in 1822.
Research Tips
- Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, Register Office Block CHR002, County Hall, Hertford SG13 8EJ. Indexes and Catalog
- Hertfordshire Family History Society
- Ordnance Survey map of Hertfordshire 1900 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time
- Ordnance Survey map of Hertfordshire 1944 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time
- GENUKI outlines information for genealogists for the county. It is also a doorway to pages covering individual parishes.
- Joiner's Marriage Index is available for Hertfordshire on GENUKI. Individual parishes are covered separately.
- Wikimedia Commons has a variety of maps of Hertfordshire, and parts of Hertfordshire, past and present.
- A Vision of Britain through Time is a website produced by the Department of Geography of the University of Portsmouth. It outlines all parishes as they were in the 19th century.
- The FamilySearch Wiki lists its collections of church records and vital records along with those provided by other organizations, both commercial and voluntary.
- The commercial website FindMyPast also has a collection of wills and newspaper transcriptions, as well as the "1939 Register" (an equivalent to the census gathered at the beginning of World War 2).
- The hundred of Braughing: Introduction and map as provided by British History Online in the Victoria County History of Hertfordshire, volume 3, pp 289-291
- The parish of Thorley ibid, volume 3, pp 373-377
Categories: Hertfordshire, England | Thorley, Hertfordshire, England | Braughing Hundred, Hertfordshire, England | Bishop's Stortford Rural, Hertfordshire, England | Hadham Rural, Hertfordshire, England | Braughing Rural, Hertfordshire, England | East Hertfordshire District, Hertfordshire, England |
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