History
Excavations have shown evidence the locality was occupied in the Iron-Age, Roman and Saxon periods.
In Domesday of 1086 it is referred to as LaLega, and by 1372 it is Thyrleye. In 1813, Thurleigh, or Thurley, is recorded as being in the Hundred of Willey and the Deanery of Eaton. Lega is a Latinized form of leigh. The name may derive from Anglo-Saxon (æt) þǣre Lēa = "(at) the clearing".
There was a church here in Saxon times. The current church has some parts still dating from around 1150, and at about that same time a castle was built here.
The deanery of Eaton contains the rectories of Bolnhurst, Colmworth, Shelton, Staughton Parva, Tilbrook, Wilden, and Yielden; the vicarages of Eaton Socon, Keysoe, Melchburn, Pertenhall, Renhold, Ravensden, Riseley, Roxton, Great Barford, and Thurleigh; and the perpetual curacy of Dean.
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