Traditional county: Lincolnshire · District / Borough: East Lindsey · Region: East Midlands
Explore Thornton, Lincolnshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Thornton map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Thornton, Lincolnshire, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
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| Place | Thornton |
| Traditional County | Lincolnshire |
| District / Borough | East Lindsey |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.192332 |
| Longitude | -0.138364 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Thornton reveals itself as a quiet assembly of dwellings tethered to the flat, expansive horizon of the Lincolnshire landscape. It lies 1.5 miles south-west of Horncastle (from Horncastle: bearing 219°T, OS grid TF 244 677), and is situated south of Thimbleby village. The light here pulls long, thin shadows across the fields, catching the moisture that rises from the earth long after the sun has begun its descent. To the north-east, the elevation of Langton Hill offers a vantage point from which the patchwork fields around Thornton appear as a hushed, muted tapestry of greens and browns. The air carries a stillness that seems to preserve the memory of the Roman influence nearby, where the ancient stone remnants of Banovallum still hold their ground against the creeping ivy. Thornton occupies a space where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the pace of life more surely than any clock. The low, heavy sky of the East Midlands often presses against the rooflines, lending the brickwork a profound sense of permanence. Each lane in Thornton traces a path through a geography defined by slow, patient agriculture and the quiet persistence of the soil.
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Explore Thornton, Lincolnshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 53.192332, -0.138364. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | August 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |