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Help and advice for Thorncombe

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Thorncombe

Churches
Church History
Church Records
Description & Travel

Genealogy
Historical Geography
Maps

Churches

Anglican
St. Mary, Thorncombe, Church of England

You can also perform a more selective search for churches in the Thorncombe area or see them printed on a map.

Church History

Michael Day provides photographs and bibliography for Thorncombe (St. Mary) on his Dorset Churches website

Church Records

UK Genealogy Archives have a full transcript of the Marriages at Thorncombe, 1552-1812 taken from the Phillimore Marriages series.

Description and Travel

A description of Thorncombe from the Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5 is available on the UK Genealogy Archives site

You can see pictures of Thorncombe which are provided by:

Gazetteers

Ask for a calculation of the distance from Thorncombe to another place.

Click here for a list of nearby places.

Genealogy

The Dorset On-line Parish Clerks scheme (OPC) transcribe records relating to the county.
The Thorncombe pages contain many useful resources.

Historical Geography

You can see the administrative areas in which Thorncombe has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.

Maps

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference ST377034 (Lat/Lon: 50.826758, -2.886486), Thorncombe which are provided by:

This place shown on an OpenStreetMap map.
Google Streetview
StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
OpenStreetMap
Bing (was Multimap)
OldMaps (Old Ordnance Survey maps.)
Old Maps Online (Other old maps.)
National Library of Scotland (Best site for old maps)
Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
Elgin Road Works
GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.