Search
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… town from at least 1515-16 7 until 1836 when the liberty of the Isle of Ely was abolished. Assizes were held half-yearly, … town ever since; the January and July sessions for the Isle are held here, those in April and October at Ely. 9 The …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Officials of the corporation OFFICIALS OF THE CORPORATION The town … first named officer was also deputy chief constable of the Isle. 20 It is now merged in the Isle force. A town inspector was appointed under the Wisbech …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… PORT, NENE OUTFALL, CANAL The original combined outfall of the Ouse and Nene, by Wisbech, had been diverted along … diverted back again soon afterwards by the blocking of the Creek. 3 No attempt seems to have been made to reopen … maps, since until 1934 it formed the boundary between the Isle of Ely and Norfolk. Walker and Craddock, Hist. Wisb. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Relations between the bishops of Ely and the town of Wisbech RELATIONS BETWEEN THE BISHOPS OF ELY AND THE TOWN … fact the bishops, who had three other palaces in the Isle and one just outside at Somersham (Hunts.), do not seem …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… SCHOOLS A reference in the Archdeacon's Visitation Book of 1581-3 69 to a certain Mr. Belson of Wisbech St. Peter, … after Queen Mary, and was the first of its kind in the Isle. New classrooms for handicrafts and domestic science … as well as Wisbech itself. 94 The county boundary of the Isle and Norfolk, based on the old course of the Well Stream, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… A COMMERCIAL CENTRE Wisbech is now the commercial centre of the southern marshland, and the title 'Capital of the … were larger than those practised anywhere else in the Isle, and a most rosy picture of the future of Wisbech was … of Wisbech is the most extensive of any town in the Isle, embracing as it does all the county north of a line …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Wiston WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south … comprised 2,842 a. Buncton chapelry, a detached portion of Ashington parish which lay entirely within Wiston and … 82 who conveyed it in 1634 to John Tufton, earl of Thanet, 83 who sold it in 1649 to John Fagg. 84 Fagg, a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Martin) WITCHAM ( St. Martin), a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 5 miles (W.) from Ely, on … a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… century its economic fortunes were closely linked to those of the woollen and cloth industries nationally, although it retained the range of occupations typical of a small, prosperous market and … 10121. ORO, MSS Wills Oxon., Witney inventories. HMC De L'Isle and Dudley I, p. 298; above, manor. For Collier, PRO, E …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WITTENHAM, LITTLE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wallingford, hundred of Ock, county of Berks, 4 miles (N. W. by N.) from … induced by the beauty of the sea view, bounded by the Isle of Wight, built a lofty hexagonal tower of brick, which …