Thearne is a

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and former

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, now in the parish of Woodmansey, in the

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, England. In 1931 the parish had a population of 183. It is situated approximately south-east of

Beverley Beverley is a market town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is located north-west of Hull city centre. At the 2021 census the built-up area of the town had a population of 30,930, and the smaller civil parish had ...

to the east of the

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from

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to Beverley. It also lies just to the west of the

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Geography

Thearne lies between the A1174 Beverley to Hull road, and the

, around south-east of Beverley. The original village is located at the meeting of three minor roads: Thearne Road (now Ferry Lane) and Thearne Lane (formerly Old Wire Carr Road) to the west, and Ferry Lane to the east. The modern place includes additional housing along the A1174.Ordnance Survey. 1:25000. 2006; ''also'' OS Open DataOrdnance Survey. 1852 Sheet 211 The area around Thearne is primarily agricultural, low lying (less than above sea level), with extensive drainage. There are several developments of glasshouse based agriculture in the area.

Governance

The hamlet is in the Beverley and Holderness parliamentary constituency. Thearne was formerly a

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in the parish of Beverley St. John, in 1866 Thearne became a civil parish, on 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished to form Woodmansey.

History

The name 'Thearne' is a reference to the Thorn tree and was recorded as early as the late 13th century. A ferry east of Thearne across the

dates to at least the 12th century. In the 15th century a chapel dedicated to the

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was established. The chapel was confiscated during

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's suppression, and is no longer in existence. Flooding of the Beverley-Hull road led to orders for an improvement of the area's drainage in the 17th century. The land around Thearne was

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by the Beverley, &c. Inclosure Act 1785 (

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. c. ''48'' ). The

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was constructed through the area in around 1800, but does not actively drain Thearne. A windmill for corn, ''Thearne Windmill'', south-west of the village on the Beverley-Hull road was constructed sometime around 1800. An earlier mill existed in the 17th century, the new mill had steam power installed in 1856. In 1821 the population of Thearne was 90; by around 1833 the township had a population of 67. In the 1850s Thearne consisted of less than 10 main buildings, including Thearne Hall (built ). A

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chapel was built in 1867. Ferry Road led east to the

where the ferry ('Waghen ferry' later 'Wawne Ferry') crossed to the Anchor Inn (later the Windham Arms), and to the road to

Wawne Wawne , also spelled Waghen, is a small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The village is situated approximately north of Hull city centre and south-east of Beverley on the east bank of the River Hull. The ci ...

. By the 1920s Thearne Windmill was out of use. The ferry closed in August 1946 when the Windham Arms Public House at Wawne, from where it operated, was sold to Moors' and Robson's Brewery. Their new tenant, Walter Twidale, reported that the ferry boat was no longer safe to use, as recorded by Ronald Dixon, the chairman of Woodmansey Parish Council, in the council minutes of December 1946. A waste water treatment works for Woodmansey and Thearne was constructed in the 1950s, north-east of the village. The Methodist chapel closed in 1968. Glasshouse agriculture developed extensively around Wawne in the second half of the 20th century.Ordnance Survey. 1:10000. 1956, 1974, 1984, 1989

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