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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… from the north, where parts of Sawston consist of peaty fen, to downland at over 300 ft. by the Essex border. There …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the north-east Wicken's boundary with Soham curves along a fen watercourse. The south-eastern angle of the parish lies … limestone. In the far north, and in the surviving Wicken Fen south-west of the village, are extensive beds of peat, which in Sedge fen overlay a layer of shell marl in those places where the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Sedge and Edmunds fens, and 1½ a. of Lammas land in Fodder fen. Its grazing was usually let by candle auction in the … in the 1660s, 23 c. 15½ a. at the west end of Edmunds fen were reserved to provide turf for the poor. In the 18th … Counc. Bull. xxxvii. 8; cf. T.A. Rowell, 'Hist. Wicken Fen', pp. 232-3. e.g. Newmarket Jnl. 13 Mar. 1986; 11 Apr. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… sheepflock, nor from the commonable doles in the Fodder fen. 88 When the tithes were commuted in 1842, Spinney Abbey …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1400, except that in 1414 the tenants mowed the fodder fen on the lord's orders; 75 they were also still supposed to … parallel to the river Cam, from which they were divided by fen pasture surviving into the 19th century. 84 In the 17th … field 87 and renamed by 1830 after the adjoining High Fen, 88 lay to the south-west. South of Arbistrall field were …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… which also took children from cottages in Swaffham Prior's fen. 5 That school, from 1958 only a junior and infant …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… allotted in 1664, by 1770 covering c. 343 a. as High Fen farm, together with Upware farm. At inclosure in the … which was broken up when again sold in 1899. 85 When High Fen farm was sold in 1881, it had been split into two farms, Padney, 244 a., and High Fen, 232 a.; the latter was owned by 1910, possibly since …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a parish, in the union of Downham, hundred of Freebridge-Marshland, W. division of Norfolk, 4 miles (S. S. W.) from … an act was passed in 1813, for draining and improving the fen lands. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the … a parish, in the union of Downham, hundred of Freebridge-Marshland, W. division of Norfolk, 5 miles (S. by W.) from …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… [ S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 36, p. 294]; for Mrs. Eleanor Fen, Mrs. Anne Fen, and Mary Roberts, their servant, ditto; and for Matthias …