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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Skipton, E. division of the wapentake of Staincliffe and Ewcross, W. riding of York, 7 miles (N. W. by N.) from … inhabitants. It is situated on the east side of the Aire, and intersected by a tributary of that river. There is a … of the wapentake of Manley, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 7 miles (W.) from Barton-upon-Humber; containing 694 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WISBECH ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 3 miles (N. W.) from the town of … for the children of the union. Wisby, county of Lincoln.See Whisby. WISBY, county of Lincoln.See Whisby. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… OF PARSON DROVE Parson Drove, originally a township and chapelry of Leverington, became a separate ecclesiastical … until about 1910, when the farm was sold to the Isle of Ely County Council for small holdings. The structure of the … referred to in c. 1133-51, when Bishop Niel of Ely granted a square mile ( milliarium) of marsh, first …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Hundred Elm ELM Elm, on the Norfolk border between Wisbech and Outwell, is one of the larger parishes in the Isle. It … the Ministry of Health Provisional Orders Confirmation (Ely, Holland, and Norfolk) Act, which came into force the … the main road from Wisbech to Outwell, Downham Market, and Ely (A 1101). The Low Road (B 1101) forms the village street …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Leverington LEVERINGTON Leverington is a large parish and village on the northwest of Wisbech. 1 The lay-out-a … the method and date of its acquisition by the church of Ely is unknown. As at Wisbech, both bishop and prior obtained … Reynolds (1674-1744), Bishop of Bangor 1721-3 and of Lincoln 1723-44, was the son of a rector. 12 GUILDS …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… elongated shape usual in the marshland areas of the Isle and Holland, stretching from the light silt soils by the Nene … out of the marsh, free from all claims of the Bishop of Ely and the inhabitants or others claiming under them. The … and the family estates were entrusted to the Bishop of Lincoln, who sold the custody to Anne, John's relict. Anne's …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Outwell and Upwell OUTWELL AND UPWELL These two villages lie astride … is therefore partly in Norfolk and partly in the Isle of Ely. 1 In the Middle Ages they were collectively known as … Downham Market (A 1122) following the canal; the Wisbech-Ely road (A 1101), which leaves this at Outwell church; a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… differently constituted, with narrow frontages to the Bank and long extensions into the fen. Since, moreover, Thorney is … from the abbey are very scanty. The boundary with the Ely Cathedral priory property in Wisbech Murrow was adjusted in 1248. The Prior and Convent of Ely recognized 200 acres between the dike dividingThorney and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… north of Wisbech. The Shire Drain divides it on the north and west from the sister parish of Tydd St. Mary in … boundary, separating, as it has done, two counties, two dioceses, and in all probability two AngloSaxon kingdoms. The … Book, since it was within the liberty of the Bishop of Ely, but Tydd St. Mary appears there in the form of Stith. 4 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1109 when Wisbech vill was divided between the Bishop of Ely and the prior and convent. That this separation had not taken … by a portico porch. MANORS On the division of the Ely estates between the bishop and the convent, half the vill …