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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… miles (N. N. W.) from Newbury; containing 337 inhabitants, and comprising 2084 a. 26 p. The chapel is dedicated to St. … tithes have been commuted for 530, the vicarial for 200, and there is a glebe of 16 acres. A school is endowed with 10 … A market, granted by Henry III., was formerly held here; and a fair is still kept on St. Martin's day. The living is a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WISBECH ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 3 … The parish comprises 9483 a. 1 r. 5 p., of arable and pasture land in nearly equal portions; 186 acres are … is endowed with 21 acres of land. Wisbech (St. Peter and St. Paul) WISBECH ( St. Peter and St. Paul), a sea-port, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… OF PARSON DROVE Parson Drove, originally a township and chapelry of Leverington, became a separate ecclesiastical … Rectory Act (1870). It had long maintained its own poor, 1 and its separate existence for civil purposes was virtually … end of Leverington; it has no separate manorial history, and may be compared in status with Gedney Hill over the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Hundred Elm ELM Elm, on the Norfolk border between Wisbech and Outwell, is one of the larger parishes in the Isle. It … shape usually found in Wisbech hundred, with the church and village on the firm silt land at the north-east end, just … The alterations made under the county Review Order of 1933 and the Ministry of Health Provisional Orders Confirmation …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Leverington LEVERINGTON Leverington is a large parish and village on the northwest of Wisbech. 1 The lay-out-a … outfall, a village site protected by the 'Roman Bank', and a landward extension into the fen-was originally the same … Parson Drove (q.v.), has been separated both for civil and ecclesiastical purposes, and the hamlet of Gorefield is …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Outwell and Upwell OUTWELL AND UPWELL These two villages lie astride the Well Stream. Each is therefore partly in Norfolk and partly in the Isle of Ely. 1 In the Middle Ages they were …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… north of Wisbech. The Shire Drain divides it on the north and west from the sister parish of Tydd St. Mary in … separating, as it has done, two counties, two dioceses, and in all probability two AngloSaxon kingdoms. The upper … eastern boundary of the parish is also a county boundary, and was in 1934 adjusted to conform with the modern course of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… when Wisbech vill was divided between the Bishop of Ely and the prior and convent. That this separation had not taken place in … is rendered improbable by the line of this boundary and also by the fact that until the last century Wisbech St. …
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 … £435 4 s. 6 d. in deposits in its first year. 31 Friendly societies started in Wisbech about twenty years later, the … most financially successful of all English working men's clubs, having 1,136 members, a revenue of £1,818 and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… John Wing was appointed to the office at a salary of £35, and a new post of chamberlain was created. 4 In 1849 the town clerk's salary was £45 a year, and he also drew £15 a year as clerk to the Sub-Commissioners of Pilotage and £25 as clerk to the Charity Trustees. 5 A beadle is …