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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… chapelry of Leverington, became a separate ecclesiastical district under the Leverington Rectory Act (1870). It had … southwards to Guyhirn, is one of the most important in the district. For many hundreds of years it was the bastion of … the east side of Leverington. Fendyke protected the whole district on the north side of Wisbech which includes Tydd St. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… The stone-slated roof of the Limes is noteworthy, in a district where such roofs are not common. The village hall … in Domesday Book. It is therefore conceivable that the district in which it lay was not reclaimed until c. 1200 and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Drove (q.v.) was erected into a separate ecclesiastical district, and the ecclesiastical district of Gorefield was formed; they were given the status … to be paid for boots, overcoats, &c. In the Peterborough District Probate Registry. P.C.C. 91 Russell. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Main Drain, the principal artificial watercourse of the district, forms part of the boundary between Newton and Tydd …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… lay-out of the villages, but the topography of the whole district has subsequently been much altered by several large … to the houses... and though the country cannot boast of rural beauty, there is an air of neatness and of greater … dying here and in Nordelph in less than two months. 7 The district was already known for its market-gardens in the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… has been energetically continued by the Thorney Rural District Council. Although this body controls one of the … the total. This proportion was far above the average for rural districts of the size of Thorney, and slightly above …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… conditions prevail, and Littleport (27), among the rural parishes of the Isle. A large section of the parish … 1878, when Guyhirn was made a separate ecclesiastical district and the patronage vested in the Bishop of Ely. 57 … in 1857, which became the church of an ecclesiastical district thirteen years later. The parish includes Southea in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of £24,800. 52 They supply the whole of the borough and rural district, and a wide area around. The Water Company has now been transformed by statute into the Wisbech and District Water Board. 53 Sewage works at Foul Anchor, in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… were transferred to Wisbech Borough, and the more rural parts of the latter were transferred to Elm and to March Urban District. The effect of these Orders was to reduce the … consider that the town was likely to increase much; the rural part of the borough contained only about ninety houses, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Jail (see below) the weekly Petty Sessions of the Wisbech district have also been held here; the daily magistrates' … a memorial of the jubilee of King George V. 41 The local District Nursing Association was founded in 1898. 42earlier …