Search
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
… comprised by south-east Holland and Norfolk west of the Ouse. It is situated on the Nene about 12 miles from its … Railways. The former company proposed a new cut to the river and improved docks, but partly owing to the opposition … Canal, 22 formerly carried the main outfall of the Great Ouse. The diversion of the Ouse, however, to its present …
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 … due to the blow to trade caused by the diversion of the Ouse to the Lynn outfall, and to the Black Death a few years …
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
… NENE OUTFALL, CANAL The original combined outfall of the Ouse and Nene, by Wisbech, had been diverted along Well Creek into the present Ouse outfall by 1300, though it was temporarily diverted back … Johnson in 1710 sums up the situation admirably: 'Wisbech river . . . hath an indifferent descent and the outfall …
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 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… The flood was followed ( c. 1300) by the diversion of the Ouse. These factors taken together prevented the town from …
A History of the County of Sussex
… which is dissected by streams flowing north-east to the river Adur. 99 Part of the south-east boundary is formed by …