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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1096 the yield of the manors was increased by £3 to £14 10 s. 3 In 1279 4 the demesnes probably accounted for almost … in 1910, stood on Mill Hill a little south of the village street. 41 Another was new built, close to the second, in … business on the spot. When he died, aged 79, in 1824, the buildings included two granaries 95 ft. long, one built in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… gift. All pupils were to attend church regularly. Frances's executor, her brother's probable former curate Richard Hill (d. 1733), added … children, the charity school was declining through Edmunds's negligence: he allegedly haunted public houses, leaving the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… elm plantation at the north-east end of the main village street. 2 A Scheme of 1911 allotted the surplus income of the … the Ditches' rents about half the annual £4,600 spent on street lighting and other public facilities, besides the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the Swaffham land. In a plea at Wandlebury Aethelwine's support enabled the prior of Ramsey to defeat that claim, … of a group of moats at the north-east end of the village street. Remains of two moats there, once fed from the … the 19th century around an earlier chimney, and the farm buildings of Lordship (formerly Sorrels) Farm. 71 A house …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… 9 SWAFFHAM PRIOR Fig. 105 Swaffham Prior, Village Map (O.S. 6 ins. aTL 56 N.W., bTL 56 S.E., cTL 56 S.W., dTL 66 S.W.) … Dyke and Reach Lode. The village consists of a long street running parallel to the fen edge with a former … the two churches crowning a hill at the S. end, only later buildings, served by a back lane, are found on this side of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Reach Lode; 96 its northernmost section followed the lode's former course, slightly further out. 97 In the south the … Ages the village stretched for almost ¾ mile along a street meandering gently north-eastward with a parallel line … from Reach, to c. 270 a. of ancient closes surrounding the street. 49 North-east of the churchyard the north-western …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Town meadow, which were being let in the 1540s for over 30 s. 81 In 1577 another 8¾ a. of copyhold was given under Thomas Rolf's will for the same purpose. About 1598 it was decided that … except those occupying the manors and other gentlemen's estates. In 1627 John Newburn gave his copyhold tenement, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… St. Julitta (his mother) was commonly called St. Cyri(a)c's. Its unusual dedication was established by the 1210s 76 and … 1728 x 1740, a new vicarage house westward across the street. 36 To a possibly earlier structure remodelled in two … south-east of the south-western part of the village street. St. Cyriac's is on the crest, St. Mary's in a dip to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… c. 1,500 a., was included in the demesnes. Ely priory's, then of 220 a., came to c. 260 a. by 1310, while the four … 1787. 24 The southernmost part of the fen, near Horsewell street or end, 25 called the Horse Drift by 1564, was … Of the six or more fires which in the 1840s destroyed farm buildings and stacks of corn and hay, several were ascribed …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… languages and mathematics, was educating Roger Rant's sons and others privately. 58 A permanent endowment for … free. 59 By 1744 a schoolhouse had been built by the street at the north side of the churchyard, where a master's … entrusted to the parish charity trustees, who owned the buildings, both the management of the school and the choice …