Place:Thorngumbald, Yorkshire, England

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NameThorngumbald
Alt namesTornsource: Domesday Book (1985) p 309
Tornesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 309
TypeVillage
Coordinates53.717°N 0.169°W
Located inYorkshire, England
Also located inEast Riding of Yorkshire, England    
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Thorngumbald is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England in an area known as Holderness. It lies approximately to the east of Hull city centre on the A1033 road.

The civil parish is formed by the village of Thorngumbald and the hamlets of Camerton and Ryehill. According to the 2001 UK census, Thorngumbald parish had a population of 3,106.

The parish church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building. It also had a Methodist Church built 1904.

The unusual name is derived from the word Thorn, designating a thorn bush, and the name Gumbaud, the family name for the local Lord of the manor in the 13th century.

The village has five shops in the shopping centre - chemist (Boots), butchers (Dixons), newsagent (Bridgeman News), fish and chip shop (Bazza's Plaice) and Spar. There is 1 beauty salon, Icon. Three hairdressers,Changes Hair Lounge, Exclusives and Hair Mania and 1 Chinese Takeaway, Happy House. There is also a Post Office located on the Main Road. It is in the secondary school catchment area for South Holderness Technology College, to which buses are used every day to transport children.

The village is home to England rugby league international Jon Wilkin and ex Hull City player Chris Chilton.

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