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For 800 years tho Sussex village of Thorney. on Thornoy Island, near Chichester, England, has been known aR a farming community. Domesday Book sneaks of it as "Tornei. a manor of 30 villeins with eight plows." Now its cottages, manor house and 78-year-old school, its farms and orchards, arc boitur levelled_ to make way for a Royal Air Force landing field and station. Thorney is being rcnlicod by two hangars and such modern buildings (including a movie theatre) as are suitable for nil aviation village. Iho 200 or 300 inhabitants ore bona moved to various points in Sussex. F.vPn the island will cease to bo. for n causeway will connect it with the mainland. Only its twelfth-century chinch will bo allowed to stand.

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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22918, 27 June 1936, Page 10

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END OF OLD VILLAGE Otago Daily Times, Issue 22918, 27 June 1936, Page 10

END OF OLD VILLAGE Otago Daily Times, Issue 22918, 27 June 1936, Page 10

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