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Thorpe
Thorpe shown within Surrey |
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| Population | 5,624 [1] |
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| OS grid reference | TQ019685 |
| District | Runnymede |
| Shire county | Surrey |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Egham |
| Postcode district | TW20 |
| Dialling code | 01932 |
| Police | Surrey |
| Fire | Surrey |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Runnymede and Weybridge |
| List of places: UK • England • Surrey | |
Thorpe is a village in Surrey, England, located between Egham and Chertsey. It lies just inside the circle of the western part of the M25, near the M3. Neighbouring villages include Virginia Water, Wentworth, Laleham and Lyne. The River Bourne flows through the village and it lies within the Godley hundred.
Thorpe appears to be an island: a former rural community which has survived the construction of nearby motorways and gravel pit extraction. Much of the local surroundings are now a conservation area.
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The village has a number of listed buildings and others constructed within the style of the area. Archeological finds in the surrounds point to Bronze and Iron Age as well as Roman settlements. Chertsey Abbey records note a place of worship at Thorpe from the 7th century; the chancel of the parish church was constructed as a chapel of retreat for the private use of Chertsey's Abbot and stands on Roman and pre-Roman foundations. The nave of the present church dates from the 10th century; millennium celebrations at St. Mary's took place in 1990.
Thorpe appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Torp. It was held by Chertsey Abbey. Its domesday assets were: 7 hides. It had 9 ploughs, 33 acres (130,000 m2) of meadow, herbage worth 24 hogs. It rendered £12.[2]
St Mary's Church is part of the conservation area along with a number of other listed and protected buildings possibly dating from the 17th century onwards. Renalds Herne, an 18th-century, brick-built house, stands almost opposite the parish church facing a picturesque close with a thatched cottage and adjacent to another 18th-century brick-built house with an obviously brick-filled window, possibly because of the window tax.
The village is close to Thorpe Park theme park, The American School In Switzerland (TASIS England), St Mary's 7th-century church. Thorpe Industrial Estate which lies on the edge of the village is home to Maranello Concessionaires, Ferrari's UK distributor.
Notable former inhabitants of Thorpe include Frank Muir, David Williams and Admiral Hardy (1769–1839), captain of HMS Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar.
Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Thorpe,_Surrey Thorpe, Surrey] at Wikimedia Commons
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