FURTHER READING
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 form Thorney Abbey describe the distribution of books to the
monks for their devotional reading. This information is unknown from other
medieval English Benedictine monasteries.]
Online resources
Recent work on Thorney can be seen as part of the Peterborough Sense of Place
Project: Life in a Fenland Village at www.senseofplacepeterborough.org/thorney
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