The remodelling of the Duke of Bedford's fenland village by Alan Teulon.
'Thorney came as near as any (village) in the country to the ideal of a wealthy landowner understanding the economics of agriculture, a farmer master of its practice, a village not over populated, with pure water, decent homes, allotments and a school instanced as the most successful experiment in social organisation that England has so far seen' - Victoria County History of Cambridgeshire.