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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 Gloucester
… 99 At inclosure Mill common, which contained some marshland and some woodland, comprised c. 106 a. and Foss …
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
… droves, banks, and waste lands in the parish. As in most Marshland parishes, the amount of land to be so treated was … 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 …
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 villages of the Isle, but in Leverington has been considerably modified. In the first place, the fen portion of the ancient parish, containing Parson Drove …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Walton (Norf.), 1 is of the elongated shape usual in the marshland areas of the Isle and Holland, stretching from the … village to peat on clay at the extreme western end in the fen. With an area of about 6 square miles it is smaller than … or others claiming under them. The remaining part of the marshland was allotted at the rate of 5 acres for each …