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Ordering books from The Thorney Society
Please send cheques, payable to The Thorney Society, to The Secretary, Thorney Heritage Museum, The Tankyard, Station Road, Thorney, Peterborough, PE6 0QE

Research on Thorney

Archaeology

Thorney

Husband, Dorothy A brief history of Thorney Abbey  Thorney Abbey, 1999
    Available from the Secretary at Thorney Heritage Museum, price £1.00   plus 50p postage and packing.  

Thorney Society Victorian gravestones: a selection of Victorian gravestones from Thorney Abbey, Cambridgeshire An Ancarig Book from the Thorney Society, 2005
Available from the Secretary at Thorney Heritage Museum, price £4.50 plus 50p postage and packing.

Thorney Society Military graves from Thorney Abbey Graveyard An Ancarig Book from the Thorney Society, 2005
Available from the Secretary at Thorney Heritage Museum, price £4.50 plus 50p postage and packing.

Thancredus, Torhtredus and Toua, the "Thorney Martyrs"
An article contributed to the Thorney Society by Avril Lumley Prior, available here

General books covering the Fens

Sly, Rex From punt to plough  Alan Sutton, 2003

The medieval Thorney Abbey
Sharpe, Richard Monastic reading at Thorney Abbey, 1323-1347  Traditio (2005) volume 60, p243-278        [Four years' notes from Thorney Abbey describe the distribution of books to the monks for their devotional reading.  This information is unknown from other medieval English Benedictine monasteries.]

Thomas, John Evidence for the dissolution of Thorney Abbey:recent excavations and landscape excavations at Thorney, Cambridgeshire  Medieval Archaeology vol 50, 2006, p179-241
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-769-1/ahds/dissemination/pdf/vol50/50_179_241.pdf 

Online resources

Report of the Higher Education Field Academies in 2006 & 2007 for Thorney http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/aca/thorney.html 

 

 

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