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Thorncrest Village

Thorncrest Village is a neighbourhood in northwestern Toronto, Canada.

Thorncrest Village
Thorncrest Village · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Thorncrest Village is a neighbourhood in northwestern Toronto, Canada. It is a collection of tree-lined streets north of Rathburn Road, between Kipling and Islington avenues, in what used to be part of Etobicoke.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Thorncrest Village

8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Rob Ford Stadium

    Rob Ford Stadium is a 2,200-seat stadium in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is primarily used for soccer, track and field and football.

    3.9 km · stadium in Toronto, Canada · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    James Gardens

    James Gardens is a private botanical garden in the Etobicoke district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada along the Humber River. It was a former private estate sold to the City of Toronto and is now managed by the Toronto Parks Department.

    2.2 km · Public park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Etienne Brule Park

    Étienne Brûlé Park is located in the Humber River valley just north of Bloor Street West in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is named after Étienne Brûlé, an early French explorer in the Toronto area.

    3.7 km · park in Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Park Lawn Cemetery

    Park Lawn Cemetery is a large cemetery in the Etobicoke district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It currently has around 22,000 graves.

    3.5 km · cemetery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Cloverdale Mall

    Cloverdale Mall is a community shopping centre located in the Etobicoke district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at 250 The East Mall northeast of the intersection of Dundas Street West and Highway 427). It opened in 1956 as an open-air shopping plaza on what was part of the Eatonville farm.

    3.8 km · shopping mall in Toronto · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Honeydale Mall

    Honeydale Mall was a community shopping mall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was located at the intersection of Dundas Street and The East Mall Crescent.

    3.9 km · shopping mall in Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Lambton House

    Lambton House is a historic former inn in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the last remaining building from the former village of Lambton Mills along the Humber River.

    2.8 km · historical house museum in Ontario, Canada. · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Montgomery's Inn

    Montgomery's Inn is a historic building in the Etobicoke area of Toronto, Ontario. Originally constructed as an inn, it now serves as a living history museum and is owned by the City of Toronto.

    1.7 km · house museum in Etobicoke, Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Thorncrest Village

Airports
Toronto Pearson (YYZ), 7 km · John C. Munro Hamilton (YHM), 63 km · Buffalo Niagara (BUF), 104 km
Stations
Kipling, 2.9 km · Old Mill, 3.8 km · Kipling GO Station, 3.1 km
  • Hamilton → Thorncrest Village
    13893 km · quickest by air, 28h 29m · NZ$3,030–4,680
  • Windsor → Thorncrest Village
    321 km · quickest by air, 4h · C$120–180
  • Ottawa → Thorncrest Village
    361 km · quickest by air, 4h 4m · C$130–200
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Thorncrest Village

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Thorncrest Village. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA free ferry service also makes the short crossing: it is just 121 metres, the world's shortest regularly-scheduled ferry route.
  • Get inTTC streetcars are available within a short walk from the mainland ferry terminal: Route 509 Harbourfront travels east along the waterfront (Queens Quay) to Union Station.
  • Get aroundA visit to Toronto Islands from the ferry docks at the southern end of Bay Street is a great way to spend a bike-friendly, relaxed afternoon by bike.
  • Get aroundThe trip to the Toronto Islands from the downtown core (Bay St and Queens Quay) is a pleasant 15-minute ferry ride, with frequent summer service and the best views of the Toronto skyline.

From Wikivoyage: Toronto, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    624 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    859 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,899 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    2,990 km
  5. 05
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    3,128 km

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Around it

Next door to Thorncrest Village

Thorncrest Village is 3 km from Etobicoke, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.