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Survey of London Monograph
… Windsor Herald WINDSOR HERALD The office of Windsor is said to have been instituted for the … pat. 28, cr. 31 October 1633, admitted by Parliamentary Commissioners 8 November 1648. Civil servant, calligrapher, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. German) WINESTEAD ( St. German), a parish, in the union of Patrington, S. division of the wapentake of … pulpit is a monument with a recumbent figure in armour, to the memory of Sir Robert Hildyard. The celebrated Andrew … are free; it was erected at an expense of 2300, the Church Commissioners contributing one-half, the Incorporated Society …
A History of the County of Stafford
… was in Derbyshire, it was part of Burton parish by the earlier 16th century, presumably because it was also a tithing in Burton manor. 9 In 1650 parliamentary commissioners advocated assigning the township to the adjoining Derbyshire parish of Newton Solney, but …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… evidence shows that there was a church at Winstone by the mid 11th century, 33 and in 1101 or 1102 Henry I … grant by Hugh de Lacy of the demesne tithes of Winstone to Gloucester Abbey. 34 The living was first recorded as a … 60 and in 1782 he was allotted 66 a. by the inclosure commissioners. 61 The glebe land amounted to 80 a. in 1842 62 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wisbech (St. Mary) WISBECH ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of … 186 acres are common or waste. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Wisbech St. Peter. The church is … the town, very extensive works have been executed by the commissioners of the Nene Out-fall, which have greatly …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… became a separate ecclesiastical district under the Leverington Rectory Act (1870). It had long maintained … Fen and its neighbourhood were transferred from Holland to the Isle and added to Parson Drove in 1934. 3 The added … years. 26 As late as 1837 it was reported to the Charity Commissioners that 137¼ acres, producing £301 13 s. a year, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Elm ELM Elm, on the Norfolk border between Wisbech and Outwell, is one of the … of the county boundary transferred a small built-up area to Emneth (Norf.) which was not quite counterbalanced, as … regulation of the school was promulgated by the Charity Commissioners (23 June 1874). Under the 1910 reorganization …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… LEVERINGTON Leverington is a large parish and village on the northwest of Wisbech. 1 The lay-out-a frontage upon the … marsh land, between the Roman Bank and the Nene outfall, to the owners of commonable messuages or tenements in … of Leverington Hall. It was drawn by John Watté, a local surveyor. Infm. Mr. W. F. Crosse. Infm. the late J. T. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… village about 4 miles north of Wisbech, lying just west of the 'Roman Bank'. The parish, which in 1934 was increased by … soils by the Nene through heavier silts around the village to peat on clay at the extreme western end in the fen. With … over them. These contentions were upheld by the inclosure commissioners, who awarded Colvile 371 acres out of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Upwell OUTWELL AND UPWELL These two villages lie astride the Well Stream. Each is therefore partly in Norfolk and … continuous, so that it is impossible for a stranger to tell where one ends and the other begins. Together they … was reopened in 1881 when by a scheme made by the Charity Commissioners in that year about half of the 69 arising …