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Thorpe is a village in Surrey , United Kingdom , located between Egham and Chertsey . It lies just inside the circle of the western part of the M25 , near the M3 . Neighbouring villages include Virginia Water , Wentworth , Laleham and Lyne . The River Bourne flows through the village and it lies within the Godley Hundred . Thorpe appears to be an island: a former rural community which has survived the construction of nearby motorways and gravel pit extraction. Much of the local surroundings are now a conservation area. HISTORY The village has a number of listed buildings and others constructed within the style of the area. Archeological finds in the surrounds point to Bronze and Iron Age as well as Roman settlements. Chertsey Abbey records note a place of worship at Thorpe from the 7th century; the chancel of the parish church was constructed as a chapel of retreat for the private use of Chertsey's Abbot and stands on Roman and pre-Roman foundations. The nave of the present church dates from the 10th century; millennium celebrations at St. Mary's took place in 1990. Thorpe appears in s. It had 9 Plough s, 33 acres of Meadow , herbage worth 24 Hog s. It rendered £12. Surrey Domesday Book St Mary's Church is part of the conservation area along with a number of other listed and protected buildings possibly dating from the 1600s onwards. Renalds Herne, an 18th-century, brick-built house, stands almost opposite the parish church facing a picturesque close with a thatched cottage and adjacent to another 18th-century brick-built house with an obviously brick-filled window, possibly because of the window tax. TODAY The village is close to Thorpe Park theme park, The American School In Switzerland (TASIS England) , St Mary's 7th-century church. Thorpe Industrial Estate which lies on the edge of the village is home to Maranello Concessionaires, Ferrari 's UK distributor. Frank Muir was a notable inhabitant of Thorpe. REFERENCES |
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