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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… being on Saturday (market day) (Oldham, MS. Hist. Wisb. River, 180 (Wisb. Mus.)). The Revd. Jeremiah Jackson attended …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… on the site of Barton Farm on the opposite side of the river. The earliest dated evidence of episcopal tenure of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… who held 40 acres in Bryggesfeld on the left bank of the river and had several subtenants, 1 and Thomas Hunston, who …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Railways. The former company proposed a new cut to the river and improved docks, but partly owing to the opposition … 'Wysbeck' on the other hand has now swollen into the main River Nene. The central part of the town, between the two … in very early times. It is on the left (west) bank of the river, and is not very far from the large moat at the north …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… authenticity of Wulfere's charter of 664, mentioning the river going to Elm and to Wisbech as the boundary of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was rebuilt in 1667 on a more substantial scale near the river. 88 Two years later, however, it was in a dangerous …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the burial of executed criminals. The gallows stood on the river bank a little below the Horseshoe corner. 12 A jail was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Johnson in 1710 sums up the situation admirably: 'Wisbech river . . . hath an indifferent descent and the outfall … the problem. The commissioners found that the level of the river bed had been raised 6 ft. or more by silting, so that … should provide a sluice at the Horseshoe, and that the river should be widened from 40 to 60 ft. 9 The …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 34 and it was probably with a view to improving the silted river that Bishop Morton (1479-86) caused his Learn to be cut …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… all the Wisbech schools are on the right bank of the river. This was used as an argument against the Queen's Road …