Thorney Island was the eyot (or small island) on the River Thames, upstream of medieval London, where Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster...
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Thorney Island may refer to: Thorney Island (Westminster), a former eyot in the River Thames Thorney Island (West Sussex), an island in Chichester Harbour...
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area around Thorney Island, site of Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster, and ribbon development heading west - towards Westminster - from gates...
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Hampshire Thorney Island (Westminster) Thorney Island (West Sussex) Thorney Toll, Cambridgeshire Thorny Creek, West Virginia Thorny Flat ST Thorney, a tugboat...
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development of the area began with the establishment of Westminster Abbey on a site then called Thorney Island. The site may have been chosen because of the natural...
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Watling Street (section Westminster ford)
Richborough on the English Channel to a natural ford in the Thames at Thorney Island, Westminster, to a site near Wroxeter, where it split. The western continuation...
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Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England...
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Botolph of Thorney (/ˈbɒtʊlf/; also called Botolph, Botulph or Botulf; later known as Saint Botolph; died around 680) was an English abbot and saint....
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John Roper, Baron Roper (redirect from John Roper, Lord Roper of Thorney Island)
May 2000, he was created a Life peer as Baron Roper, of Thorney Island in the City of Westminster. He was the Liberal Democrat Chief Whip in the House of...
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palace on Thorney Island just west of the City of London at about the same time as he built Westminster Abbey (1045–1050). Thorney Island and the surrounding...
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