Throwley
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Throwley is an English village south of Faversham in the Borough of Swale in Kent. The name is recorded in the Domesday Book as Trevelai, which corresponds with a Brittonic origin, where "trev" means a settlement or farm house and "elai" typically relates to a fast moving river or stream (cf. Trelai (showing the loss of terminal "f") in Cardiff). In 2011 the parish had a population of 300.
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Throwley
- UK place.population
- 300
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 Census)
- UK place.shire_district
- Swale
- UK place.shire_county
- Kent
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Faversham and Mid Kent
- UK place.post_town
- Faversham
- UK place.postcode_district
- ME13
- UK place.postcode_area
- ME
- UK place.dial_code
- 01795
- UK place.static_image
- St Michael and All Angels, Throwley - geograph.org.uk - 239768.jpg
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 300
- Image
- Wilgate Oast, Wilgate Green, Throwley, Kent - geograph.org.uk - 1450726.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01795
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- Throwley
- P12749
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Throwley is an English village south of Faversham in the Borough of Swale in Kent. The name is recorded in the Domesday Book as Trevelai, which corresponds with a Brittonic origin, where "trev" means a settlement or farm house and "elai" typically relates to a fast moving river or stream (cf. Trelai (showing the loss of terminal "f") in Cardiff). In 2011 the parish had a population of 300.
==History== At the end of the civil wars of 1139-53, King Stephen's chief lieutenant William of Ypres gave the churches of Throwley and Chilham to the Abbey of Saint Bertin in Saint-Omer, France. Throwley Priory was built as a cell of that Benedictine house. It was dissolved as part of Henry IV's general suppression of alien priories in 1414 and granted to Thomas Beaufort, the half-brother of the king's father. Beaufort gave Throwley to Syon Abbey on 13 July 1424, a gift confirmed by Henry VI in 1443.
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