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<< Text Pages >> Thundersley - Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in England in Essex

Submitted by Thorgrim on Friday, 06 January 2006  Page Views: 10870

Natural PlacesSite Name: Thundersley
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.932 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Essex Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Southend  Nearest Village: Thundersley
Map Ref: TQ782886
Latitude: 51.568111N  Longitude: 0.569811E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Two stones, the one by the church porch is called the "Bird Stone" and there is another about 50 yards from the church by the road. The significance is that Thundersley denotes a sacred grove to Thunor (Thor). The church is very likely to have been built on the site of the pagan grove and one or both of the stones could have had ritual use. Set high on a ridge overlooking the Thames estuary, this place would have been one of the first places to be settled in this otherwise wet and marshy landscape. Is it at all possible that these stones (incredibly rare in stoneless Essex) could have been regarded as Thunor's "thunder stones" ie thunder-bolts?
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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
TQ7888 : St Peter's Churchyard, Thundersley, looking south by John Rostron
by John Rostron
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TQ7888 : St Peter's Churchyard, Thundersley, looking north by John Rostron
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TQ7888 : Thundersley Cemetery by Glyn Baker
by Glyn Baker
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TQ7888 : St Peter's Churchyard, Thundersley, looking north by John Rostron
by John Rostron
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TQ7888 : St Peter's Parish Church, Thundersley by Trevor Harris
by Trevor Harris
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Re: Thundersley by Anonymous on Wednesday, 15 April 2009
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Re: Thundersley by TimPrevett on Saturday, 07 January 2006
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Is this the Parish church? I was at Theological College with a chap who is now a minister in Thundersley at the Congregational church.
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