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The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… formerly a doctor but lately took to the pursuit of the turf and almost as a necessary consequence, gambling. Which …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Trust as an example of traditional fen landscape. Wicken's fens have yielded scattered traces of prehistoric activity, … Camb. Ind. Press, 2 June 1961; A. Day, Wicken, 20; idem, Turf Village: Peat Diggers at Wicken (1985), 15. 86 C.R.O., … 74-5. Cutting, 22 Sept. 1956, in Cambs. Colln; cf. A. Day, Turf Village, 41-5; idem. Wicken, 57. Camb. News, 9 Oct. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… from the 1660s, two lots, c. 1½ a., in Sedge and Edmunds fens, and 1½ a. of Lammas land in Fodder fen. Its grazing was … a. at the west end of Edmunds fen were reserved to provide turf for the poor. In the 18th century they were each allowed … 24 By the 1830s, when the poor still by custom dug turf there for firing, the peat had been almost worked out, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of the village, doles, totalling 52 a. in 1839, in those fens still then common. 95 Some early inclosures were … abbey's men from Burwell and Reach, to pasture cattle, cut turf, and fish. 12 The southern part of the fenland which lay … parish, was in the 15th century, as later, mainly dug for turf and cut for sedge; 49 cattle were formally excluded from …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in the 1650s. 57 He was allotted 380 a. of Wicken's fens for his manorial rights in its waste in 1664, 58 but, …