Thurleigh

The Romans came and left traces in the area which is now Vicarage Green and later a church was built also as a lookout and shelter against potential enemies. Stone was dragged at least from seven miles away.

Blackburn Hall farm is a timber frame house dating from the 12th century and retains most of the original features.

A very pretty village now divided by the main road, has an original cast mile marker, picturesque thatched cottages, one pink with wooden Elizabethan windows.

On the river Ouse there are pub moorings.

During the WWII came an airfield and many stories evolved including the tale of the burning corn. Planes carrying the wounded could have had priority landing if a flare was dropped as they circled to land. One such flare accidentally fell into a field of stooked corn and set it alight. A plough and tractor stood in a field ready for use, so the quick thinking farmer’s son promptly drew a ring of ploughing around the fire.
Another tells of tragedy when two planes collided in mid-air with full loads, killing all crew. There were individual heroes too, for Sergeant ‘Snuffy’ Smith won the first Congressional Medal of Honour awarded in the European conflict for a