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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… parish of Bere Regis ( Dorset II, 1122); since then the civil parish has been independent, but the church remains a chapel-of-ease to Bere. The civil parish includes three original settlements: Kingston, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… styles, with a tower, was greatly injured during the civil war in the time of Charles, but was afterwards restored, and … from time immemorial as St. Oswald's well. During the civil war, in 1643 and 1648, the parish was the scene of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… maintained its own poor, 1 and its separate existence for civil purposes was virtually recognized in 1874, when a … Some of the houses of Murrow village are in Parson Drove civil parish, and one of the local ecclesiastical districts …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Richard Swale (1545 ?1608), Chancellor of Ely and a noted civil lawyer; he was appointed rector in 1588 by …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Parson Drove (q.v.), has been separated both for civil and ecclesiastical purposes, and the hamlet of … land to add to it. The house was empty on the outbreak of war in 1939 and some families of London evacuees who were … inadequate, and in the latter part of the First World War the infants' classes were held in the parish room …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… at Outwell was only relieved when after the First World War an army hut, accommodating 77, was acquired. The school … as from Outwell and Upwell, and since the Second World War has had over 350 on the books. Additional accommodation …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… I to draw the royal coach. 52 At the outbreak of the Civil War the earl 53 was made General of the Horse in the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… or Barton manor appears to have been seized during the Civil War, for in March 1650 Lawrence Bromfield levied a fine in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was more than half empty shortly before the First World War. In 1937 the school was 'decapitated' by the transfer of … of £80 towards the cost of £718. 85 Since the First World War the numbers on the books have greatly increased, from 91 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and it was used as a residence by most bishops until the Civil War. In return for £550 Andrewes made an agreement with …