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Encyclopedia Britannica



THORNE

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 880 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: THE-TOO
THORNE , a market town in the Doncaster parliamentary division of the West Riding of Yorkshire, ro m. N.E. of Doncaster by the North-Eastern railway, served also by a branch of the
Great
  Central railway. Pop. (1901), 3818. It lies near the river Don, in a low, flat
district
 , which was formerly a marshy
waste
 , resembling the fens of the eastern counties.
Hatfield
  Chase, a portion of this
tract
 
south
  of Thorne, was partly drained by the Dutch engineer Vermuyden in the 17th century, and there were in the
district
  numerous Dutch settlers. The Chase is generally considered to have been the
scene
  of the battle of Heathfield in 633, when King Edwin of Northumbria fell before the
heathen
  King Penla of Mercia. The Levels, as this district is generally named, are of remarkable fertility, and Thorne, having water communication with Goole and the Humber, is consequently an agricultural centre of importance; while some barge-building and a
trade
  in peat fibre are also carried on. The
church
  of St Nicholas is a fine building of various periods from the 12th century.


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