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A History of the County of Hampshire
… Near the clump of trees on the top is a maze cut in the turf, within a square. It is said to have been made by the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… carried out by this Commission in 1965. A series of five turf-lines within the bank indicated successive enlargement …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… who made frequent incursions from the neighbouring fens into the upland parts of the county. In 1190, Richard I. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… susceptible to environment, reacted unfavourably to the Fens. The roads, houses, living conditions, even the gnats …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… more wooded and picturesque than is usual in the Fens. The northern end of the village practically adjoins … 40 sixpenny pieces. The poor of Elm were entitled to cut turf on a piece of land of about 40 acres which was inclosed about 1817. By 1837 the turf-cutting had been substituted by the letting of this land …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… p. 207. The original stone slates-a rare feature in the Fens-survive at the back of the house; in front they have …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… channel, with the New Bedford River, of the southern fens; and the Middle Level Main Drain, which takes the … bishops were still granting leases in Euximoor and Laddas Fens. 50 By the mid-19th century, however, the bishops of Ely … and 17 17 s. 3 d. (Upwell). 33 With the drainage of the fens, the value of Upwell rectory increased very greatly. In …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… about 40 acres. The first proposal to redrain the Thorney fens was made in 1626 by Robert Tipper and John Gason, 44 and … 1672-3, 380. Fenland N. & Q. ii, 235-6. North and Morris Fens in Thorney were again flooded after the breach at Great …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… As in most Marshland parishes, as opposed to those in the fens proper, there is a network of by-roads and a more … on 20 September 1632. The Commissioners enacted that the fens in question should be charged with a rate of 40 s. an …