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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… milch-cows are usually kept. An act for draining certain fen land and low grounds was passed in 1842. The living is a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 60 a. of rough meadow in Queenholme, Henholme, and Snout fen and 40 a. of mowable meadow in Shelfords. The rest of the … comprised meres and three extensive commons, Hempsals fen in the east, Middle fen, and West fen, the last intercommoned with Over. 67There …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the 18th century also known as Wivelingham, 96lies on the fen edge south of the river Ouse or Old West River, forming a … north is covered with alluvium and the north-east is peat fen. Patches of gravel form several drier sites within the fen and the beds of two former meres are marked by shell …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… by 1500. Reeves and haywards were appointed regularly and fen reeves, constables, and aletasters less frequently. From … In the late 16th and early 17th century the work of the fen reeves became more important. Four were elected by the … and Hempsal Outcasts, and employed men to stake Hempsals fen, gravel the fen roads, and do emergency work during …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… RG 9/1019. Tice, Methodism in Cambs. 44; L. M. Munby, Fen and Upland, 57; P.R.O., RG 31/2, Ely dioc. no. 591. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was established. 2 The parish consists in effect of the fen end of Leverington; it has no separate manorial history, … in the Parts of Holland. About 1,000 acres in Inkerson Fen and its neighbourhood were transferred from Holland to … one Thomas Flower, the owner of 24 acres in Wisbech High Fen. 5 Further breaches occurred in 1570 6 and in 1770. At …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Bishop of Ely, together with other land in Elm and Needham Fen. 54 Peyton's son, also Sir John, died in 1635, 55 and the … manor of Wisbech Barton. He also held land called Vernons Fen, a messuage, and Need hams Field. The association of … to Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Cheyne of Fen Ditton, c. 15305. 77 In the latter half of the 17th …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… by the 'Roman Bank', and a landward extension into the fen-was originally the same as in the other Marshland … has been considerably modified. In the first place, the fen portion of the ancient parish, containing Parson Drove … Thummins, Margerie's Croft, Farthing Field, Outnewlands, Fen Croft, Church Croft, Paps Field or Hill Croft, Seafield, …