Thornborough, Buckinghamshire

"For the village in North Yorkshire, see Thornborough, North Yorkshire."infobox UK place
country = England
latitude= 51.9969
longitude= -0.9181
official_name= Thornborough
population = 562 [ [http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=792093&c=Thornborough&d=16&e=15&g=424220&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1216676142734&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 Neighbourhood Statistics 2001 Census] ]
shire_district= Aylesbury Vale
shire_county = Buckinghamshire
civil_parish= Thornborough
region= South East England
post_town= BUCKINGHAM
postcode_district = MK18
postcode_area= MK
dial_code= 01280
os_grid_reference=SP742334
constituency_westminster= Buckingham
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static_image_caption= The mediæval bridge near Thornborough, Buckinghamshire, in use from circa1400 until 1974.

Thornborough is a village and also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located about two miles east of Buckingham.

The village name, meaning "hill where thorn trees grow", is Anglo Saxon in origin. It was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Torneberge".

The village also has the earthworks of a roman village on its western border, in between Thornborough Bridge and the main village. There is a manor house with associated tithe barns in the centre of the village next to the pond. The village church is one of very few in Britain to have steel bells. The village pub, (The Two Brewers) is a thatched building with two bars. A second pub (The Lone Tree) on the outskirts of the village closed for refurbishment in 2004 and recently reopened as a biker pub. It was severely damaged by fire on November 26, 2007.

To the north of the village is the remains of an old windmill and on the River Ouse are the buildings of what used to be a working watermill. The disused Buckingham Arm of the Grand Union Canal runs between Buckingham and Western Milton Keynes to the north of Thornborough.

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