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  • Ulrike like me loves dressing up for events and she had found a cool looking event to light a Beltane Fire in the three Henges at Thornborough.

    Snell-Pym » Beltane Fun and a Little Sun! 2009

  • After the dissolution of his first marriage to Barbara Mitchell, he married Wendy Manfield née Thornborough in 1983 and emigrated to Australia where he worked for the Australian Geographic.

    Dan Escott Steve 2009

  • TARMAC Northern's submission of a revised planning application to quarry land near the Thornborough henges ancient monument site increases the stakes in this long-running saga.

    Thornborough Henges 2006

  • The county council has turned down a application from Tarmac to increase its quarrying operations near Thornborough Henges.

    Thornborough Henges 2006

  • Liberal England: Thornborough Henges. comment-link {margin-left:. 6em;}

    Thornborough Henges 2006

  • Brocklehurst coppice to Driffington, or by the Dunnings to Thornborough, 'said Naomi, chattering with freedom while she prepared the bath in the little bathroom attached to Sarah's suite of rooms.

    Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin

  • Thornborough is mentioned in the 12th century, and in the taxation of

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

  • Great Oolite, with limestones in the upper part, much quarried for building stones at Westbury, Thornborough, Brock, Whittlewood Forest, &c.; the lower portions are more argillaceous.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

  • Miss Thornborough had been the first to see and foster half of the glimmering and feeble radiances which had later grown to be the manifest lights of the magazine and book world, thanks largely to her aid and encouragement.

    Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

  • Admiral Thornborough wrote a very warm despatch as to the gallantry of the affair, but no notice was taken of it at the admiralty, and the first lieutenant did not receive the promotion that he deserved.

    With Cochrane the Dauntless 1867

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