Thornbury occurs as historic market town in South Gloucestershire, England, approximately Eleven miles (18km) n of the city of Bristol, with the humans of around 12,000 people. A town hosts South Gloucestershire council headquarters & is twinned with Bockenem in Germany. Thornbury occurs as Britain in Bloom award winning thave and besides has its own competition (Thornbury inside Bloom).

History
There exists grounds to believe that Thornbury dates back to a neolithic & bronze ages however the earliest documented grounds to believe of Thornbury's history dates back to the 9th century, with the cash settlement of "Thornbyrig". A Domesday Book noted a manor called "Turneberie" by having 103 residents.

A town charter was created in 1252. A charter's 750th day of remembrance inside 2002 was celebrated by owning the "750" bed of flowers deep-rooted in Grovesend Road. St Mary's Church is the oldest living building in the town. Inside 1974 the town council was elected. Thornbury utilized to exist as the borough however became the parish within 1984.

the remains of Thornbury train depot & line come okay, the housing estate, a bypass road & an extended pathway. Additional remains of the line may be observed at Tytherington quarry to the north of the town.

Around earliest days Thornbury experienced the thriving market, held on the High Street & in the Market Hall. A market moved to Rock Street within 1911 however close in the late 1990s and was partially replaced using a little market around the park touching the United Reform Church. the older places remains derelict although a share of it periodically utilized for overflow parking lot, when a Market Hall is okay, a fabric shop.

Thornbury's coat of arms is the arms of four families significant in the town's history: Attwells, Howard, Clare & Stafford. John Attwells left £50Around his may for a establishment of the Free School which merged sustaining the grammar school inside 1879. A Attwells coat of arms wwhen late adopted as a badge for the grammar school, today Marlwood School. A more troika families held a manor at Thornbury on top many centuries.

Amenities
Thornbury High Street. On the left is the old market hall (now a clothes shop), The White Lion pub and a Tudor style house.

Thornbury features the main street, the mall (St Mary's Centre), deuce supermarkets & numerous little shops. A town has hexad churches: St Mary's Church, Christ a King, A Methodist Church, United Reform Church, Hackett Church & [http://www.thornburybaptistchurch.co.uk The Baptist Church].

A White Lion, Thornbury, occurs as public house on High Street. Around 2003 it won a Thornbury inside Bloom award, & witharound 1999 a Britain in Bloom award for Right Pub Display. Around 1891 & 1903 its annual ratable value was £Two dozen.0s.0d..

A shop front of the Wildings (erst Worthingtons) wearable shop was utilized in the Two Ronnies serial sketch, "The Worm That Turned", & these are thought that when within Thornbury, Ronnie Barker got the idea for Open All Hours when he visited [http://www.riddiford.co.uk Riddifords] grocer's.

Industries
An industrial estate is placed in the south of the town. One of a large industries there exists Essilor, who manufacture lenses for glasses. a construction of the Midl& Way road has provided a major boost for industry by permitting traffic to keep away from the steep and narrow B4061 road.

Major roads in Thornbury
B4061. Starts at Alveston and passes across Thornbury. Grovesend road occurs as straight high speed road into Thornbury. Castle Street The Plain High Street Midland/Morton way, a high speed backbone of Thornbury.

Tourist Attractions
Thornbury castle
Independent article : Thornbury Castle

Thornbury's better known feature is its castle, the Tudor structure begun in 1511 as a personal for Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham. Them intricate red-red-brick chimneys were built within 1514, & come similar to victims observed at Hampton Court Palace. Cardinal Wolsey beheaded the Duke for treason in 1521. As a result a Duke's death a castle was confiscated by King Henry VIII who stayed at the Castle for X years around 1535 by using Anne Boleyn. Ensuing a English Civil War the Castle fell into disrepair but was renovated within 1824 by the Howard Family. the Castle is today a Twenty-six room luxury hotel & eating house.

Parish church

A Church of Saint Mary blessed virgin is Thornbury's parish church. Building began inside 1340, by owning major additions inside 1500, 1848 & 1988. In todays world, a church is fully have for worship, baptism, confirmation, marriages & funerals & more cases.

Town pump

a town pump get on a microscopic roundabout at the bottom of the High Street. It has the distinctive sign locution "To Gloucester" by having the pointing hand. A original pump was flushed inside 1924 after its declaration as a road hazard by the council. Within 1984 the freshly a single was built. Inside 2002 it was temporarily painted gold to celebrate the golden jubilee. A pump is ordinarily decorated by owning flowers & there exists typically "birthday greetings" notices laid on the pump.

Walks and scenery
Streamside walk
a pathway known as Streamside Hike starts at Gillingstool Primary School, lives in top many roads & bridges, past Thornbury Hospital & Manorbrook Primary School & on northward of Thornbury in which a stream leaves the town. An additional stream diarrhea through the northward east of Thornbury & merges at an old mill.

Old railway line
the old railway line is at present a pathway. A pathway was constructed in the Nineties to trend lines newly housing & industrial developments, antecedently it was grass & neglected. Starting from either the industrial estates it follows a route of the streets of Streamleaze & Avon Way ending touching a roundabout at the top of Avon Way.

Leisure
Mundy swimming fields were donated to Thornbury by Mrs Violet Mundy inside 1937. the fields feature a youngsters's play region & sports ground. Nearby is Thornbury Golf Club, Thornbury Leisure Centre & skate park. Around in the south Thornbury the little toddlers's play locality was recently opened. There are likewise several green spaces & walks in a area of the town. Recently a Thornbury Community Garden was install, touching Gillingstool School.

Other Attractions
These include Filnore Forest, Armstrong & Cossham Halls, a MacLaine Memorial & Thornbury Museum. The heritage trail offers information signs all about site of interest, starting from either a Town Hall (which utilized to exist as a police station and magistrates court inside Thornbury).

Schools in Thornbury
Castle School is Thornbury's gymnasium. Gillingstool Primary School dates back to the 1800's (known for its school bell). the previous Thornbury Grammar School (founded inside 1606) is nowadays a sixth form centre for The Castle School. More schools include Crossroad, Just released Siblands, Christ a King, St Mary's, Shelings & Manorbrook. John Attwells's Free streaming School existed around the 19th century, the plaque just about this school may be seen in the shop in St Mary's Plaza.

The Castle School
|- | Headteacher || Ms Melanie Warnes MA |- | LEA || South Gloucestershire |- | Status || Comprehensive, co-ed, specialist Arts College |- | There is no. of Pupils || 1700 |- | There are no. around Sixth Form || 330 |} A Castle School occurs as mixed sex comprehensive school taking pupils ages 11-18 and presently has about 1700 students including 330 in the sixth form.

Inside 1862, Handel Cossham, a local sermoniser, built a original village school at Gillingstool called 'A British School'. the few years late, because of overcrowding, a newly child school building was added adjacent to the original school. Within 1952 a school was separated into babe, juniors & seniors & a latter formed a 'Thornbury County Secondary' school. Before this it was an 'tons-age' school ingesting pupils as much as age long dozen.

Around 1962, planning began for a recently building to home the expanding gymnasium. Building functiin began a resulting season on Park Road, a places utilized when a school's swimming field. Around 1965, a building was opened under a fresh title of 'A Castle School', which reflected a school's fresh position adjacent to Thornbury Castle, when keeping a equivalent initials (TCS).

A county babe & junior schools at Gillingstool late formed a Leaze School, which is today called Gillingstool Primary School.

a school became a comp around 1972, the equivalent seasaround that Thornbury Grammar School moved from either its places on Gloucester Road to recently buildings in Alveston, also becoming a comprehensive examination using the fresh title of Marlwood School. A Castle School so took across utilize of the Gloucester Road buildings which today form its Sixth Form centre.

Pictures of Thornbury
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