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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… elongated parishes in south-eastern Cambridgeshire which took in low-lying heath to the north-west, well drained … 19th century the annual dipping and shearing of sheep took place on them. 76 The hamlet of Saxon Street developed … of Granby, closed after 1955. 10 A Saxon Street farmer took the lead in abolishing the traditional form of harvest …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… There were greater changes in the 20th century: stud farms took a steadily increasing proportion of land after 1920; …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… it to her for life, 89 and the Crown asserted that Drury took possession in defiance of William Benstede's sale of the …
The Environs of London
… of John Sherman, citizen of London, 1728. When Mr. Holman took his notes in 1719, he found the following tombs, the …
A History of the County of Essex
… 17 Larger residences with their gardens and paddocks took up so much space that by 1838 only six farms were left: …
A History of the County of Essex
… school was opened on the playing-field. The girls school took over the whole of the original building in 1968 when the … 47 A second move, to Pyrmont House, Woodford Green, took place at the end of the First World War. In 1922 the … for the poor. John Popplewell, by deed poll of 1820, which took effect on his death, gave 500 stock, in trust to …
A History of the County of Essex
… gave his name to Gales Farm; Thomas and Robert de ponte took their name from the bridge, as did Alexander and … the spring, first mentioned in 1285, from which the area took its name, 34 is uncertain. It was described in 1766 as … the grounds laid out for housing estates. 40 Some building took place in the extreme north of the parish, more at the …
A History of the County of Essex
… as lord of the manor, held courts for Woodford. He took the profits of justice 1 and, from the 13th century at …
A History of the County of Essex
… Sir James Wright, sometime British minister at Venice, who took up residence in the two-storey five-bay brick mansion. …
A History of the County of Essex
… have been founded in the 1830s. In or soon after 1837 this took over the old Congregational chapel in Mill Lane. 89 It …