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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… doubt to the damage done by railways to the trade of the port. For the next generation the population of Wisbech …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… not of the liberty of Ely, which entered or left the port. The demesnes amounted to 1,137 acres. The four … of £13,550 10 s., including £2,980 mercantile stock in the port and the proceeds of the customs and excise. After 1792 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Port, Nene outfall, canal PORT, NENE OUTFALL, CANAL The original combined outfall of … by 1566 there was a certain amount of activity in Wisbech port. In that year there traded from Wisbech 13 keels and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to levy 4 d. toll on foreign ships entering or leaving the port. Since the blocking of the Well Stream, however, the only step taken towards the improvement of the port was the straightening of the course of the Nene by Bishop Morton. Thus the port was still largely inaccessible and the privilege unreal. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… route to Oxford presumably by 1005 when it was called the 'port street', may also have formerly connected with the … End, leading to Crawley, Hailey, and Charlbury, was called Port way by the 15th century, suggesting an important route …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… on the Colne river, and much shipping belongs to the port: it has a regular custom-house establishment, with a …
A History of the County of Essex
… from 6 to 20 which might suggest incipient urban or port development, but between 1086 and 1327 Wivenhoe … in Lexden hundred, 20 reflecting Wivenhoe's growth as a port whose develop- ment was linked with the expanding … for Christmas, presumably unloaded from ships at Wivenhoe port, and four ploughs were brought from Norfolk in 16323. In …
A History of the County of Essex
… to form an estuary, covered 1,549 a. (627 ha.). 85 Its port in the south-west corner of the parish, which served … Rivers Authority, became operational in 1993. 7 Wivenhoe port was an important part of Colchester port from the 16th century until the late 19th when the river …