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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Flasby WINTERBURN, with Flasby, a township, in the parish of Gargrave, union of Skipton, E. division of the wapentake of Staincliffe and Ewcross, W. riding of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WISBECH ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 3 miles (N. W.) … commuted for 243, and there is a glebe of 12 acres. The hamlet of Drakeholes or Drakelow, partly in this township, … containing 266 inhabitants. This parish, with the hamlet of Moxhull, comprises 1196 acres, all the property of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… on the Norfolk border between Wisbech and Outwell, is one of the larger parishes in the Isle. It was originally of the … population, by the inclusion (from Wisbech Borough) of the hamlet of Ring's End, on the Nene opposite Guyhirn. Although … southern part of Cambridgeshire, while the fruit-growing hamlet of Begdale, about a mile west of the village, is …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Leverington is a large parish and village on the northwest of Wisbech. 1 The lay-out-a frontage upon the Ouse (later the … originally the same as in the other Marshland villages of the Isle, but in Leverington has been considerably … both for civil and ecclesiastical purposes, and the hamlet of Gorefield is also a separate parish …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Newton NEWTON Newton is a village about 4 miles north of Wisbech, lying just west of the 'Roman Bank'. The parish, which in 1934 was increased … on the south is not so clearly defined, and the small hamlet of Fitton End lies across this boundary. The …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Each is therefore partly in Norfolk and partly in the Isle of Ely. 1 In the Middle Ages they were collectively known as … direction to join Popham's Eau at Nordelph (formerly a hamlet of Upwell but now a separate Norfolk parish), about 3 … very circuitous course through Christchurch, the southern hamlet of Upwell, to Manea and Wimblington. The Upwell steam …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Thorney THORNEY This large parish 1 is of a different type from the others in Wisbech hundred. Its nucleus is an island of gravel, not very perceptible except from the west, but … the orchards and market gardens which are such a feature of the Wisbech area are largely absent, 2 potatoes, cereals, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… parish in Cambridgeshire, is situated 6 miles north of Wisbech. The Shire Drain divides it on the north and west from the sister parish of Tydd St. Mary in Lincolnshire. This stream has shrunk to a shadow of its former self but is an important boundary, separating, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… area comprised by south-east Holland and Norfolk west of the Ouse. It is situated on the Nene about 12 miles from its present outfall, 94 miles north of London and 40 from Cambridge by road. It is one of a series of settlements spaced at two- to three-mile …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… occurs c. 1000, when Oswy and Leoflede, on the admission of their son Aelfwin as a monk, gave the vill to the monastery of Ely. 54 In 1086 Wisbech was held by the abbot, and rated … in Barton Road and Farm, west of the town, and the hamlet of Murrow in Wisbech St. Mary. The manors coincided …