Thorne
The historic market town of Thorne, is 11 miles north-east of Doncaster, and boasts a wealth of attractions for visitors. With its flat landscape, big skies, canals and disused windmills, it is often referred to as 'Little Holland'. Together with the magnificent Humberhead Peatlands National Nature Reserve, Thorne's surrounding flat countryside makes for easy walking. The Peatlands Way links the historic settlements of Thorne, Crowle, Belton, Epworth , Haxey, Wroot, Kirk Bramwith and Sykehouse . Also worth visiting is Buntings Wood, picturesque Thorne Lock with its colourful barges and Thorne Memorial Park, a site of about 6 acres, including a lake suitable for model boats, a miniature steam railway and a bandstand with free brass band concerts on summer Sunday afternoons.
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Sir Cornelius Vermuyden(1590–1677), a Dutch drainage engineer extensively employed in England, drained in the (70,000 acres) between 1626 and 1631. The work was vigorously opposed by local people, who destroyed the dykes and killed some of the Dutch and Flemish workmen. Vermuyden was knighted by Charles I in 1629
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