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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… very extensive drainage of Wildmore, and the East and West Fens. Westward WESTWARD, a parish, in the union of Wigton, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Trust as an example of traditional fen landscape. Wicken's fens have yielded scattered traces of prehistoric activity, … west of the parish, were probably first erected after its fens had been divided in the 17th century. Wicken's relative … Within the parish the village was linked to its northern fens by two parallel causeways running north-west along the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… from the 1660s, two lots, c. 1½ a., in Sedge and Edmunds fens, and 1½ a. of Lammas land in Fodder fen. Its grazing was … as still in the 1890s, let as allotments. 22 When the fens were divided in the 1660s, 23 c. 15½ a. at the west end …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of the village, doles, totalling 52 a. in 1839, in those fens still then common. 95 Some early inclosures were … of Wicken parish was occupied until the 17th century by fens: one was said in 1279 to stretch for two leagues, a … as the Sedge fen mentioned from the 1410s. 10 Some of the fens, then described as intercommon, 11 were subject in the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in the 1650s. 57 He was allotted 380 a. of Wicken's fens for his manorial rights in its waste in 1664, 58 but, …