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Thorney, Abbey 1890
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Guthlac, a Mercian royal warrior, came here on St Bartholomew's Day 699, having entered the monastery at Repton. He said that he would found his hermitage wherever his boat landed among the swamps. He anchored three-quarters of a mile from the present abbey. After Danish sacrilege in 972, the abbey was re-founded for Benedictine monks.

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For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Thorney

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Thorney And The Rose And Crown
The Rose and Crown at Thorney was managed, I believe from the early 1930s by my Great-Aunt Ellen and her husband Joe. My mother, Daisy Steele (nee Camp), and other members of her family spent pre-Second World War summer holidays there, and during the war, presumably during the heavy bombing of London and the later V1 and V2 rocket attacks, my mother and I, along with other members of the family ...see more
Thorney, the Rose and Crown Hotel c1955
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