Thorney Island
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Thorney Island is an island (effectively a peninsula) that juts into Chichester Harbour in West Sussex. It is separated from the mainland by a narrow channel called the Great Deep.
There is a military base on the island that has a runway, although it is currently a REME (Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers) base. Large C-130 Hercules aircraft used to fly from here when it was an RAF base. In the 2001 census the island had a usually resident population of 1,079.
Thorney Island was also a site on the Thames in London where Westminster Abbey was built.
