Thornton Estate

The Thornton Estate is a housing estate in Kingston Upon Hull, England, United Kingdom. It is adjacent to and west of the city centre and mostly surrounds Great Thornton Street.

It was built in between the 1940s and the 1970s, where high-rise tower blocks, low-rise flats, houses and formerly YDG maisonettes, which were known as 'misery maisonettes' due to the quality of life of the residents living there.

Tower Blocks
The estate contains seven tower blocks, these are:
 * Cambridge Street Block 1
 * Cambridge Street Block 2
 * Great Thornton Street Block 1
 * Great Thornton Street Block 2
 * Great Thornton Street Block 3
 * The Lodge
 * The Manor