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UK Thing Sites
This list contains some possible Thing sites. The evidence may be documentary, archaeological or from the name of the location. We have not thoroughly researched this area and have stumbled across most of these locations whilst performing internet searches for other information. There are undoubtedly many more sites that we have not included.
| Name | Location | GridRef | Notes | More Info |
| Thynghowe | Sherwood Forest, England |
SK59926835 | National Monuments No: 1461548 | |
| Ting at Fell Foot Farm | Little
Langdale, Cumbria, England |
NY298031 | Ting
mound at foot of Wyrnose Pass adjacent to Castle Howe Neolithic hillfort.
On National Trust land and visible from adjoining field. |
www.visitcumbria.com/amb/littlelangdale.htm |
| Cross Hill, Thingwall | Nr Irby, The Wirral, England |
SJ2784 | Cross Hill's "thingfield" and Thingwall take their name from the Norse for parliament | www.nottingham.ac.uk/-sczsteve/VIKING_WIRRAL.pdf www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/apr/04/secret-britain-vikings-wirral-liverpool |
| Dingwall, Highlands | Dingwall
near Inverness, Scotland |
NH550590 | The town of Dingwall has its origins as a Viking thingstead, Dingwall being "thingvollr", the place of assembly of the Norse "thing" court that met on an earthen mound on a site which today is the Cromartie Car Park, adjacent to St Clement's kirkyard and the parish church of Dingwall. | www.andyblackall.co.uk/dingwall/history.htm |
| Thinghou | Finger
Farm, Diseworth, Leics |
SK4625 | Finger Farm roundabout provides access to M1 J23a services | Aspects
of the development of public assembly in the Danelaw - www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk/5/turner.html#Adkins84 |
| Hinghowe | Colston Bassett, Notts | Possibly the site of a Thing, but the name may have been taken from an estate in Suffolk | http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/young1942/chapter2.htm | |
| Low Hill | Blyth, Notts | Blyth Low Hill was the original meeting place of the Bassetlaw wapentake | Aspects of the development of public assembly in the Danelaw - www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk/5/turner.html#Adkins84 | |
| Fingay Hill | East Harlsey, Nr Northallerton, Yorks | SE4099 | Name derived from Thing | http://www.darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk/news/2066296.print/ |
| Thingoe Hill | Near Bury St.Edmunds Suffolk. | TL850654 | Thingoe Rural District Council ceased to exist in 1974 | Aspects of the development of public assembly in the Danelaw - www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk/5/turner.html#Adkins84 |
| Tain, Highlands | Approx 30 miles north-east of Dingwall, Scotland | A possible site as the name Tain is uncertain. It may come from the Norse "Thing", a place of assembly. | http://www.tain.org.uk/history-and-heritage-g.asp | |
| Secklow | Milton Keynes | Following excavation of original mound prior to building work, Secklow Mound was reconstructed in 1978 on a site behind the Central Milton Keynes library! Original mound was constructed in tenth century and was 25m in diameter, surrounded by a roughly circular 1m deep ditch. | www.adkinshistory.com/newsletter4.aspx | |
| Thingwala | Near Whitby, Yorks | NZ9008 | Among the lands granted to Whitby Abbey in the 11th century was Thingwala (Tingwall), listed between Stainsacre and Larpool . | www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64701 |
| Dingbell Hill | Whitfield, Northumbeland | NY775585 |