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 […]