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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… The parish, of over 2,100 acres, lies entirely upon Chalk and rises to an altitude of 500 ft. above sea-level. The land … Winterborne brook, which flows into the parish from the W. and turns S. at the village. The area was formerly divided … inscription-tablet flanked by scrolled cheek-pieces with fruit and flower swags, and entablature and broken segmental …
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 … the area of ancient settlement, forms part of the Wisbech fruit-growing and market-gardening district. The 2-mile road called …
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 … recalls the southern part of Cambridgeshire, while the fruit-growing hamlet of Begdale, about a mile west of the … part of the parish, on silt soil, is largely given over to orchards and market-gardens; in the southwest, on the peat, …
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 … figure of 2,484 was inflated by the temporary presence of fruit pickers.) Between 1931 and 1947 the population of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… elongated shape usual in the marshland areas of the Isle and Holland, stretching from the light silt soils by the Nene … of the district, forms part of the boundary between Newton and Tydd on the northwest. The boundary with Leverington on … At the present day a large part of the land is devoted to fruit, potatoes, and market-gardening, as in all the northern …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… differently constituted, with narrow frontages to the Bank and long extensions into the fen. Since, moreover, Thorney is on peat and not on silt fen, the orchards and market gardens which are such a feature of the … the fen was worth 6 d. an acre and the reeds and willows growing on it £200. The timber and what remained of the …
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 … The soil is highly fertile and much given over to orchards and market gardens. As in most Marshland parishes, … and two grotesque faces, representing sloth and gluttony, growing out of leaves. The shaft is traceried and the font …
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 … more than a square mile. There is also a good deal of bulb-growing. The Nene forms the southern boundary of the parish. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Introduction WISBECH Wisbech is the largest and only corporate town in the Isle, and the nodal point for the whole marshland area comprised by … England, and the development of ancillary industries (e.g. fruit canning) in the town, have led to a steady increase of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… OUTFALL, CANAL The original combined outfall of the Ouse and Nene, by Wisbech, had been diverted along Well Creek into … port. In that year there traded from Wisbech 13 keels and other vessels of 3 to 12 tons. They were used for the … included 3,879 loads of aspen logs for the local 'chip' fruit-basket industry. Personal observation. Four vessels …