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Thorne Canals Map
Thorne may refer to: Places Antarctica * Mount Thorne Canada * Thorne, Ontario, Canada * Thorne, Quebec, Canada England * Thorne, Cornwall, England * Thorne, Ottery St Mary, an historic estate in Devon * Thorne, a hamlet and historic manor in the parish of Holsworthy Hamlets in Devon *Thorne Coffin, Somerset * Thorne, South Yorkshire **Thorne Colliery United States * Thorne, North Dakota, an unincorporated community in the United States * Thorne, Nevada Other * Thorne (surname), a list of people named Thorne * ''Thorne'' (TV series), a 2010 crime drama starring David Morrissey * Thorne system A system of plant taxonomy, the Thorne system of plant classification was devised by the American botanist Robert F. Thorne (1920–2015) in 1968, and he continued to issue revisions over many years (1968–2007). Some versions of the system are ..., a modern system of plant taxonomy See also * Thorn (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Thorne
Mount Thorne () is a prominent summit (topography), peak, 1,465 m, rising on the east flank of Amundsen Glacier, 6 nautical miles (11 km) northwest of Mount Goodale, in the Hays Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains. Discovered in December 1929 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under Laurence Gould, and named for George A. Thorne, topographer and dog driver with that party. Mountains of the Ross Dependency Amundsen Coast {{Ross-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorne, Ontario
Thorne is an unincorporated community within the unincorporated township of Poitras, in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is located in the census division of Nipissing District. A designated place served by a local services board, the community had a population of 204 in the 2016 Canadian Census. Thorne is located at the northernmost end of Highway 63, just across the Ottawa River from Témiscaming, Quebec. It is also situated 63 km northeast of North Bay. As early as 1942 a number of squatters had established themselves on CIP (Canadian International Paper) property on the Ontario side of the Ottawa River. Leo Armitage and Leo Dorion are attributed as the first white settlers at the location. The small grouping of houses would eventually take the name of Thorneville after C.B. Thorne, a Norwegian born engineer and technical director in charge of building the paper mill for the Riordon Pulp and Paper Co. between 1917-20. After the Second World War owing to a la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorne, Quebec
Thorne is a municipality in the Pontiac Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada, about northwest of Downtown Gatineau, part of the Outaouais region. It is named after a town with the same name in Yorkshire, England. The name Thorn(e) is rarely used alone in English toponymy where it is more common in other forms such as Thornhill, Thornton, Thornley, Thornham, Thorngrove. Geography Thorne is located in the Gatineau Hills with its highest hills reaching an elevation of above sea level. Its notable lakes are Barnes, Johnson, Mecham, Sparling, Thorne, and Toote Lakes. Its settlements include Greer Mount, Hodgins, Ladysmith, Schwartz, Thornby, and Thorne Centre. History On May 1, 1861, the Township of Thorne was formed when it separated from Clarendon Township. But because it was too small to form its own municipality, it was merged with Leslie Township. James Martin was its first mayor. That same year, it had a population between 450 and 465 people, made up of mixed nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorne, Cornwall
Thorne is the name of two hamlets in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. One is on the A3073 road near Bude Bude (; kw, Porthbud) is a seaside town in north east Cornwall, England, in the civil parish of Bude-Stratton and at the mouth of the River Neet (also known locally as the River Strat). It was sometimes formerly known as Bude Haven.''Cornish ... and the other near Whitstone. Thorne, Whitstone, was a manor in medieval times and had in 1086 land for one plough and 20 acres of pasture.Ordnance Survey (1946) ''One-inch Map of England and Wales; Bude, sheet 174'' References Hamlets in Cornwall Manors in Cornwall {{Cornwall-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorne, Ottery St Mary
Thorne in the parish of Ottery St Mary in Devon is an historic estate situated on the west side of the River Otter opposite the town of Ottery St Mary. The site is today occupied by Thorne Farm (much of the land of which has been built over by a modern housing estate known as Thorne Farm Way) situated to the immediate north of the town's school and hospital and to the immediate south of the surviving early 17th century grand mansion house of Cadhay. The area of Thorne Farm is low lying and suffered serious flooding in 2008 which caused the Environment Agency to propose improvements including diverting the Thorne Farm Stream via a channel to the River Otter flood plain. Descent at-Thorne Thorne was the seat of the "at-Thorne" (later ''Thorne'') family, which as was usual{{citation needed, date=August 2017 had taken their surname from their seat. Some confusion exists concerning two Devonshire families, one named by Pole (d.1635) and Risdon (d.1640) as "at-Thorne" seated at "Thor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holsworthy Hamlets
Holsworthy Hamlets is a civil parish in the northwest of Devon, England. It forms part of the local government district of Torridge and came into being on 1 April 1900 when the ecclesiastical parish of Holsworthy was split into two. The parish almost surrounds the parish and town of Holsworthy, except on the east. It is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Bradworthy, Sutcombe, Milton Damerel, Thornbury, Cookbury, Hollacombe, Clawton, Pyworthy and Holsworthy, and Pancrasweek. In 2001 its population was 821, distributed among farms and hamlets such as Thorne and Chilsworthy (former Domesday Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ... manors), Youldon, Honeycroft, Vognacott, Merryfield, South Arscott (the original home of the Arscott familyDay (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorne Coffin
Thorne may refer to: Places Antarctica * Mount Thorne Canada * Thorne, Ontario, Canada * Thorne, Quebec, Canada England * Thorne, Cornwall, England * Thorne, Ottery St Mary, an historic estate in Devon * Thorne, a hamlet and historic manor in the parish of Holsworthy Hamlets in Devon *Thorne Coffin, Somerset * Thorne, South Yorkshire **Thorne Colliery United States * Thorne, North Dakota, an unincorporated community in the United States * Thorne, Nevada Other * Thorne (surname), a list of people named Thorne * Thorne (TV series), ''Thorne'' (TV series), a 2010 crime drama starring David Morrissey * Thorne system, a modern system of plant taxonomy See also * Thorn (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorne, South Yorkshire
Thorne is a market town and civil parish in the City of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England. It was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. It has a population of 16,592, increasing to 17,295 at the 2011 Census. History The land which is now Thorne was once inhabited by Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age people. It became a permanent settlement around AD 700, and is mentioned in the ''Domesday Book''. The main industries in the town have traditionally been coal mining and farming. Geography Thorne lies east of the River Don, on the Stainforth and Keadby Canal, and is located at approximately , at an elevation of around above sea level, on the Yorkshire side of the border with Lincolnshire. The civil parish of ''Thorne and Moorends'' includes the village of Moorends to the north, and the Thorne Waste (also known as Thorne Moors) section of the Thorne Moors collective of moorland to the north-east. A small part of the edge of Thorne Waste, name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorne Colliery
Thorne Colliery was a large colliery within the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire in the South Yorkshire Coalfield. The colliery was open between 1925 and 1956; but had operational issues including shaft water, war time crises and maintenance trouble, causing the pit to be non-productive for much of its lifespan. Production ended in 1958 due to geological problems. Unsuccessful proposals to restart production were made in the 1980s and 1990s, and in 2004 the pit pumps were turned off and the headgear demolished. History and description Mine construction (1902–24) Thorne Colliery is situated upon the Thorne Moors north-east of Doncaster, next to the historical mining village of Moorends, north-west to Thorne. The first experimental borings at the site began in 1902, and continued until 1908. A borehole sunk in 1904 by the Thorne Borehole Syndicate, a group of local businessmen, was proven in 1908 when the Barnsley Bed was hit at a depth of 916 yard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorne, North Dakota
Thorne is an unincorporated community in Rolette County, in the U.S. state of North Dakota North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the Native Americans in the United States, indigenous Dakota people, Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north a .... History Thorne was laid out in 1905. A number of the first settlers being natives of Thorne, England caused the name to be selected. A post office was established at Thorne in 1905, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1965. References Former municipalities in North Dakota Unincorporated communities in Rolette County, North Dakota Populated places established in 1905 1905 establishments in North Dakota Unincorporated communities in North Dakota {{NorthDakota-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorne, Nevada
Thorne, Nevada is a rail junction and former town located in Mineral County, Nevada. In 1881, Thorne was a station on the Carson and Colorado Railway. In 1905, the spur line to Hawthorne was abandoned and Thorne became the terminus for Hawthorne. In 1909 and 1910, Thorne "became a very busy place" because of the boom at the Lucky Boy Mine and was reported to have two saloons. Thorne's post office operated from July 1912 until September 1921. In 1929, construction of the nearby Hawthorne Army Depot started with Thorne being the shipping point. In 1937, Thorne was served by the Hazen Mina branch of the Southern Pacific Railroad. At the start of World War II, Thorne was handling 380 car loads per month, with traffic peaking at 5000 cars per month during the war. In 1983, the Thorne Depot and the Wabuska Railroad Station were scheduled to be demolished. The Thorne Depot was eventually demolished, though some parts from it were moved with the Wabuska Railroad Station to the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorne (surname)
Thorne is a surname of English origin, originally referring to a thorn bush. Thorne is the 1,721st most common surname name in the United States. Notable people with the name include: People * Adande Thorne, Trinidadian-American YouTube celebrity * Alfred A. Thorne (born 1871), British Guyanese statesman, author and activist * Angela Thorne (born 1939), English actor * Bella Thorne (born 1997), American actress, singer, and model * Callie Thorne (born 1969), American actress * Carlos Thorne (born 1924), Peruvian novelist, writer and lawyer * Chris Thorne (actor) in ''Shake Hands with the Devil'' (2007 film) *Chris Thorn in Minnesota Vikings draft history * Christopher Thorne (other) :* Christopher Thorn (musician) in Blind Melon :*Christopher Thorne, historian :*Christopher Thorne, Creative Commons board member * Courtney Thorne-Smith (born 1967), American actress * David Thorne (other), several people :* David Thorne (British Army officer) (1933–2000) :* Davi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
