Thorney Island
Thorney Island (West Sussex)Period - 19th century, early
a small island in a bay of the English channel, near the coast of Sussex, with a village of the same name, at the mouth of the Lavant, 7m SW Chichester.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- island - - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
The place is described in text Cox 1738
- salterns - Hampshire
... Thorney is so called from the Plenty of Thorns growing thereon. Each of them [Hayling and Thorney] hath a Parish-Church: Salt is made of the Sea-Water in several Places along this Shore, which at first is of a pale and green Colour, but by boiling is made of a pure White. 'Tis this Salt that St. Ambrose speaks of, when he says, Water is turned into firm and solid Salt, as is usual in the British Isles, which is crusted into a substance as hard and white as Marble, and is very wholesome. Hexham; lib. 4. cap. [11].
The place is described in text Camden 1610
- island - Hantshire
Period - 1600s
Before which [Havant], there lie two Islands, ... the other lesse, called Thorney, of thornes there growing: and both of them have their severall parish church
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- island - Southamtoniae
Period - 17th century, early
