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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Introduction WISBECH Wisbech is the largest and only corporate town in the Isle, and the nodal point for the whole marshland area comprised by south-east Holland and Norfolk west of the Ouse. It is situated on the Nene …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… remained a quarter-sessions town ever since; the January and July sessions for the Isle are held here, those in April and October at Ely. 9 The Shire Hall on the east side of the … in 1810; it was replaced by the existing Sessions House and Police Station on the South Brink. 10 Since the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… OUTFALL, CANAL The original combined outfall of the Ouse and Nene, by Wisbech, had been diverted along Well Creek into … port. In that year there traded from Wisbech 13 keels and other vessels of 3 to 12 tons. They were used for the … Wisb. River, 55-56. Ibid. 61. He was the son of a Norfolk farmer, and acquired his mercantile interests through his …
A History of the County of Sussex
… WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south and 1½ miles wide at its widest point. The ancient parish … held of Bramber rape. 11 Ralph Shirley of Wiston was farmer from 1484 until his death in 1510, when the lease …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… lies for the most part on the southern side of the Sence, and the river and its tributaries form the parish boundary on the north and east. The land rises from about 300 ft. in the valley to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… FOR THE POOR Almshouses The Church Green Almshouse and Town Feoffees By 1613 the borough owned an almshouse and garden on the site of Nos. 2838 Church Green north of the … 2 given in 1627 to 100 left by the wealthy landowner and farmer Richard Ashcombe in 1606, and by Henry Heylin of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… predominantly agricultural, with profits from rents and farming forming the bulk of the lord's income: in 1552 … to farm it from the manor house until the 17th century, and agricultural buildings there remained in use by local farmers until the 19th. The demesne's extent and administration is discussed below: most of it lay west …
A History of the County of Oxford
… or Farm Mill near the 12th-century manorial precinct, and of Woodford or Witney Mill at the town's northern end, at … 1 Outlying mills at Hailey (near modern New Mill) and at Crawley were added probably in the late 12th or early … miller and of Curbridge; 34 he was, however, principally a farmer and timber dealer, and may have sublet the mills. Long …
A History of the County of Oxford
… cloth industry, already unrivalled within the county and marked, from the early 17th century, by increasing … the dyer Richard Humfrey (d. 1570), apparently a sheep farmer, 69 was the town's second wealthiest taxpayer in 1544 … to the Witney wool merchant Edward Wilmot. A Kelmscott farmer was owed payment from a Witney broadweaver for wool in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: markets and fairs MARKETS AND FAIRS Witney had a weekly market and two annual fairs from the early 13th century, though …