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    Torksey is a small village in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 875. It is...
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    Torksey Castle is an Elizabethan manor house located in the village of Torksey on the east bank of the River Trent in Lincolnshire, England. It is 12 miles...
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    The Foss Dyke, or Fossdyke, connects the River Trent at Torksey to Lincoln, the county town of Lincolnshire, and may be the oldest canal in England that...
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  • Torksey Nunnery was a nunnery in Torksey, Lincolnshire, England. It was founded at the south end of the town by the side of the Fossdyke. It housed a small...
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    Torksey railway station was a station in Torksey, Lincolnshire on the line between Lincoln and Retford. It closed to passengers in 1959, but part of the...
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    county town of Lincoln and less than 1 mile (1.6 km) north-east from Torksey and Torksey Castle. Historic England. "The Hermitage (1064083)". National Heritage...
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    campaigned in northeastern Mercia, after which it spent the winter at Torksey, on the Trent close to the Humber. The following campaigning season it...
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    February 2010). "John Fowler's Viaduct at Torksey". Flickr. "Torksey Bridge". Chrimes (1991), pp. 37–38. "Torksey Viaduct". Forgotten Relics. Fairbairn,...
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  • Torksey Priory was a priory in Lincolnshire, England. It was an Augustinian house and was dedicated to St Leonard. It is thought that the priory was founded...
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    District Council. 4 May 2023. Retrieved 10 May 2023. "Election results for Torksey". West Lindsey District Council. 4 May 2023. Retrieved 10 May 2023. "Election...
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    Torksey (near Lincoln) AD 872-3 This was probably the first opportunity for the Danes to discover the Sherwood Forest area. The distance from Torksey...
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    comprising lay administrators and led by William de Clewre, Matthew de Torksey and John de Haytfield successively bearing the title of Clerk of the King's...
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    where the Vikings had previously overwintered in the nearby fortress of Torksey in Lindsey from 873 to 874. Lincoln probably surrendered in 918 following...
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  • Burghs—Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham and Stamford—together with Torksey and York. These were among the chief towns of the northern part of the...
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  • Burghs, otherwise unknown, are presumed to have been the Five Burghs and Torksey and York. Following the killings, King Æthelred the Unready had the property...
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    relocation was a result of a war with Mercia. The Army overwintered at Torksey, and was then reported as being in the Repton district a year later. It...
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  • stations, although the rest of line, through to Saxilby and Lincoln via Torksey, closed to passengers in November 1959. The final train was a railtour...
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  • its puppet-regent Ecgberht I of Northumbria. The Army overwintered at Torksey, and was then reported as being in the Repton district a year later. It...
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    Trent. Downstream of Dunham the river passes Church Laneham and reaches Torksey, where it meets the Foss Dyke navigation which connects the Trent to Lincoln...
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    in Lincolnshire, where he was a substantial landowner with estates at Torksey and Navenby; his name probably derives from the village of Great Limber...
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    waterway connected to the River Trent (via the Fossdyke Roman canal at Torksey) and to the North Sea via The Wash. The Lincolnshire Wolds – an upland...
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    Chesterton via Chesterton Road. A1133 A46 northeast of Newark-on-Trent A156 in Torksey Originally passed through Winthorpe but the route was severed by improvements...
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    administrative centre was influenced by its proximity to the Danish stronghold at Torksey. In 868 King Alfred married Ealhswith (Ealswitha), daughter of Æthelred...
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  • 1184 by the inhabitants of Torksey; given as Benedictine; dissolved 11 July 1539; granted to Edward, Lord Clinton 1551/2 Torksey Nunnery Freiston Priory...
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    electronic telephone exchange in Europe opened at Ambergate in Derbyshire. Torksey railway viaduct, built across the Trent in 1849, is considered to be the...
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  • England. Bridges are listed under their current use or traffic. For example, Torksey Viaduct is listed under 'Highway' as it is now used by foot and cycle traffic...
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  • Kesteven), Timberland, Toft, Toft Hill, Toft next Newton, Tongue End, Torksey, Tothby, Tothill, Toynton All Saints, Toynton Fen Side, Toynton St Peter...
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  • murder. After abandoning his car, Prudom had hitchhiked and walked to Torksey, Lincolnshire, where on 20 June he broke into a house and tied up the elderly...
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    MS&LR main line at Clarborough junction ran through Leverton, Cottam and Torksey to Sykes Junction (located about 1.3 miles (2.1 km) northwest of Saxilby)...
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    separated by the River Trent divorcing its largest market town, Gainsborough, Torksey and the City of Lincoln from Nottinghamshire. East of the Lincolnshire...
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