Thorington
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Thorington is a village and a civil parish in the in the hundred of Blything
, in the Suffolk Coastal
District, in the English county of Suffolk
. For transport there is the A12 road nearby. Nearby settlements include the town of Halesworth
and the villages of Wenhaston
and Blackheath. Thorington has places of worship.
Blything (hundred)
Blything was a hundred of eastern Suffolk, and with an area of was the largest of Suffolk's 21 hundreds.The origins of the hundred centre around the ancient royal estate of Blythburgh, whose hall housed the hundred's central meeting place....
, in the Suffolk Coastal
Suffolk Coastal
Suffolk Coastal is a local government district in Suffolk, England. Its council is based in Woodbridge. Other towns include Felixstowe.The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the municipal borough of Aldeburgh, along with Felixstowe,...
District, in the English county of Suffolk
Suffolk
Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...
. For transport there is the A12 road nearby. Nearby settlements include the town of Halesworth
Halesworth
Halesworth is a small market town in the northeastern corner of Suffolk, England. It is located south west of Lowestoft, and straddles the River Blyth, 9 miles upstream from Southwold. The town is served by Halesworth railway station on the Ipswich-Lowestoft East Suffolk Line...
and the villages of Wenhaston
Wenhaston
Wenhaston is a small village of 818 people situated to the south of the River Blyth in northeastern Suffolk, England. Roman coins, pottery and building materials unearthed in local fields indicate the existence of a settlement at Wenhaston from the 1st century AD, and indeed this was probably a...
and Blackheath. Thorington has places of worship.