Weather
These notes draw on the Suffolk Records Office data for earlier times and my own observations for the later years. Just over 100 years ago, in fact on February 10th 1895, a gardener at Little Thurlow Hall noted the lowest temperature ever recorded in Suffolk: it was -1 °F (-18.3 °C), and there were 46 […]
Natural History
Thurlow enjoys a very diverse and interesting wildlife, mainly because of the varied habitats the two villages offer. I deal here with both Thurlows together, since from the point of view of the wildlife (as opposed to the parishioners) the human boundaries are quite arbitrary and, indeed, invisible. The dominant natural feature is, of course, […]
Landscape and Geography
The landscape surrounding Thurlow is the result of the joint effects of past glaciation and the agricultural alteration of the land by its inhabitants. The cross-section of Little Thurlow (Fig. 1) shows the village in a wide shallow valley cut into the East Anglian plateau which gently dips toward the south – south east (Fig. […]
History
So what do we know about this small village tucked away in the south west corner of Suffolk within a few miles of both Cambridgeshire and Essex? The first and most obvious conclusion is, of course, that there are two villages, Great and Little Thurlow, or as they were once known, Thurlow Magna and Thurlow […]