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Thornbury walk

Thornbury, Bristol, England

Thornbury walk

Length6.5 mi
Elev. Gain393.6 ft
Est. Steps15000

Historic site

Wild life

Created by Matt
Introduction
Thornbury walk is a 6.5 mile (15,000-step) route located near Thornbury, Bristol, England. This route has an elevation gain of about 393.6 ft and is rated as medium. Find the best walking trails near you in Pacer App.
Straightforward walk on pavement and public footpath, passes through castle grounds. Plenty of birdsong to accompany you.

Thornbury Castle

Historical
Thornbury Castle is a castle in Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, England. It was begun in 1511 as a home for Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham. It is not a true castle (designed to serve as a fortress), but rather an early example of a Tudor country house, with minimal defensive attributes. It is now a grade I listed building.

Thornbury, Gloucestershire

Place
Thornbury is a market town and civil parish in South Gloucestershire district of the county of Gloucestershire, England, about 12 miles (19 km) north of Bristol. It had a population of 12,063 at the 2011 Census. Thornbury is a Britain in Bloom award-winning town, with its own competition, Thornbury in Bloom.

The Castle School

Place
The Castle School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, England, which serves the town and the surrounding villages. Pupils from Bristol also attend the school. There are around 1,750 pupils, including 360 in the sixth form.

Northavon (UK Parliament constituency)

Place
Northavon was, from 1983 until 2010, a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Northavon

Place
Northavon was a district in the English county of Avon from 1974 to 1996.The district was formed by the Local Government Act 1972 on 1 April 1974 as part of a reform of local authorities throughout England and Wales. Under the reorganisation, the area surrounding the cities of Bath and Bristol was formed into a new county of "Avon", named after the river that ran through the area.

Morton, Gloucestershire

Place
Morton, split into Upper and Lower Morton, are areas of farmland to the north east of Thornbury, in South Gloucestershire, England. There is a large farm shop in Upper Morton, while Lower Morton has many cattle farms.

GLOSS FM

Place
GLOSS FM is an online community radio station in the United Kingdom, broadcasting to Thornbury and District, South Gloucestershire. Its strapline is "Your Local Station". It originally started broadcasting to the South Gloucestershire area on 19 April 2010. It was an extension of Thornbury FM, a smaller station broadcasting to just Thornbury which had started on 19 November 2005.

Thornbury (Gloucestershire) railway station

Place
Thornbury railway station served the town of Thornbury in Gloucestershire. The station was the terminus of a short 7.5-mile (12 km) branch from Yate on the Midland Railway's line between Bristol and Gloucester.The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders. It opened in 1872 with two trains in each direction a day, both connecting at Yate with trains on the mainline.

Thornbury Hoard

Place
The Thornbury Hoard is a hoard of 11,460 copper alloy Roman coins, mainly radiates and nummi, dating from 260 to 348, found in the back garden of Ken Allen in Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, England while digging a pond in March 2004. It was described as the "third largest of its kind" found in Great Britain.

Thornbury Rural District

Place
Thornbury Rural District was a rural district council centred on Thornbury in the south of Gloucestershire. It was originally formed as a Poor Law Union on 5 April 1836 with 26 Guardians representing the 21 parishes in the Union and the Guardians of the Poor became the Rural Sanitary Authority for the District in 1872.
Route Details

Length

6.5 mi

Elev. Gain

393.6 ft

Est. Steps

15000
Created by
Matt
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