page_title: Thornbury, Gloucestershire
section_title: Amenities
hierarchical_section_title: Thornbury, Gloucestershire / Amenities
caption_attribution_description: English: Thornbury High Street, Thornbury, near Bristol, England. Taken by Adrian Pingstone in September 2004 and released to the public domain.
context_page_description: Thornbury is a market town and civil parish in the South Gloucestershire district of the county of Gloucestershire, England, about 12 miles north of Bristol. It had a population of 12,063 at the 2011 Census. Thornbury is a Britain in Bloom award-winning town, with its own competition: Thornbury in Bloom. Nearby villages include Morton and Thornbury Park. The civil parish includes the hamlet of Milbury Heath.
context_section_description: Thornbury has a high street, a shopping centre (St Mary's Centre), two supermarkets and many smaller shops. The town has seven places of worship: St Mary's Church, Christ the King the Catholic Church, the Methodist Church, the United Reformed Church, St Paul's Church, and the Hackett and Thornbury Baptist churches. On the outskirts at Lower Morton stands an independent evangelical church: Morton Baptist Church.
  The many pubs in the town include the White Lion in the High Street, which won the Thornbury in Bloom award in 2003 and the Britain in Bloom award for Best Pub Display in 1999. Restaurants include one at Thornbury Castle and also Ronnie's of Thornbury itself.
  The shop front of Wildings (formerly Worthington's) clothing shop was used in the Two Ronnies serial sketch, "The Worm That Turned". The nearby nuclear power station at Oldbury-on-Severn, Tytherington quarry and Stokefield Close were all used as locations for the 1976 four-part Doctor Who serial The Hand of Fear. The Castle School, Thornbury was used for an episode of Casualty broadcast on 2 May 2009.
  Thornbury has its own radio station, which returned in July 2017 after a five-year break.
  Thornbury is one of a handful of British towns to have a social group for adults with autism or Asperger syndrome. South Glos Aspies formed in 2017 and meets weekly.
caption: Thornbury High Street. On the left is the old market hall (now commercial premises), the White Lion pub and a Tudor-style house.
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