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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 …
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 … I to draw the royal coach. 52 At the outbreak of the Civil War the earl 53 was made General of the Horse in 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 … separating, as it has done, two counties, two dioceses, and in all probability two AngloSaxon kingdoms. The upper … or Barton manor appears to have been seized during the Civil War, for in March 1650 Lawrence Bromfield levied a fine …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… when it was entrusted in turn to Ralph de Normanville and Robert de Cantia, and to Richard (Poore), Bishop of Salisbury. 28 King John … and it was used as a residence by most bishops until the Civil War. In return for £550 Andrewes made an agreement with …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… a century later. A school for boys was opened in 1707 and one for girls in 1710; both schools were supported by … 70 In 1709 there were 50 boys at school, who had 'caps and bands &c. given them, to distinguish them from other children', and in 1710, when a permanent school building with a master's …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Wisbech and the civil war WISBECH AND THE CIVIL WAR The ship money controversy affected Wisbech to the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south and 1½ miles wide at its widest point. The ancient parish … the statement that half the ho. was demolished during the Civil War: S.N.Q. iii. 85; the alternative date given for the …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… River Sence. Since 1936 it has included most of the former civil parish of Newton Harcourt which is a chapelry of … lies for the most part on the southern side of the Sence, and the river and its tributaries form the parish boundary on the north and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… (O.S. 6 ins., ST 90 NE) The parish, irregular in shape and covering some 2,100 acres, occupies a shallow dry valley … of the R. Allen; it is entirely on Chalk, between 100 ft. and 225 ft. above sea-level. Land at East Hemsworth (18) was … formerly part of Shapwick. Domesday mentions Wichemetune and two Hemedeswordes (East and West Hemsworth), ( V.C.H., …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the union of Bodmin, E. division of the hundred of Pyder and of the county of Cornwall, 5 miles (W. by S.) from … The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 10, and in the gift of Sir R. R. Vyvyan, Bart.: the tithes have … Grenville, a distinguished royalist commander during the civil war of the 17th century, was born at Brynn, in the …