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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Elm ELM Elm, on the Norfolk border between Wisbech and Outwell, is one of the larger parishes in the Isle. It was originally of the long, narrow shape usually found in Wisbech hundred, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 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 collectively known as … Together they stretch about 4 miles along the old course of the Nene, and are locally considered, probably with truth, …
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 … were made between the Isle and Holland and the Isle and Norfolk, involving the parishes of Tydd St. Giles, Tydd St. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech St. Mary WISBECH ST. MARY Wisbech St. Mary, one of the larger parishes of the Isle, covers an area of some 10,000 acres 1 on the … that they were settlers from the high lands of mid-Norfolk, or possibly from one of the Tuddenham villages in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… at 20 s. The Walpol fee, now held by another Henry, son of Osbert de Walpol, had also been reduced to 1/12 though the rent of the tenant's 120 acres had in 1251 been increased to 12 s. … Elizabeth (Mowbray), John's daughter, to the Dukes of Norfolk, who held them in 1433. 8 In 12356 Bishop Northwold …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… whole marshland 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 …
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, … Ely and Wisbech Advertiser, South Lincs., Cambs. and West Norfolk Journal, issued on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… AND APPRENTICESHIP As in some other towns the relief of the poor fell not to the churchwardens but to the … charity. 23 This sum was supplemented in the latter part of the 16th century, by weekly collections from householders, … included the Rural Districts of Wisbech and Marshland (Norfolk) as well as the borough. In the early 1840's the …
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 … 1934 it formed the boundary between the Isle of Ely and Norfolk. Walker and Craddock, Hist. Wisb. 426. Oldham, Hist. …
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, who had become negligent in his duties … as Wisbech itself. 94 The county boundary of the Isle and Norfolk, based on the old course of the Well Stream, ran …