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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… which an appellee escaped c. 1260, when a thief was hanged and accomplices abjured the realm in the prior's court. 79 … prison was at the priory's manor house, where in 1287 a village constable placed a local man arrested for stealing. … courts for that manor in the early 19th century. 18 The parish highway surveyors were mentioned in 1585. 19 In 1634 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Chesterton Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES Chesterton was … already in 1909 sold Manor farm, 363 a. north-west of the village, 40 to the county council, which sold off 56 a. to … Wragg estate, the largest in Chesterton after 1800. Thomas Parish, who succeeded his father and namesake in 1541, 99 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… buying in 1775 the later Roebuck House beside the ferry, and occupying a 170-a. farm. Although he preached locally and … flourished later, both in the new suburb and in the village. In 1842 the Baptists built a substantial chapel in … a new one off Arbury Road, which seated 290, serving both village and suburb. It had resident ministers from the 1940s …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… CHETNOLE (D.c.) (O.S. 6 in. XXI, N.E.) Chetnole is a small parish and village 6 m. S.S.W. of Sherborne. Ecclesiastical (1) Parish …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 5 CHETTLE (9513) (O.S., 6 ins. ST 91 SE, ST 91 SW) This parish, roughly quadrilateral on plan and with an area of 1, 124 acres, lies at the head of the dry … which lower down is drained by the Crichel Brook. The village stands in the bottom of the valley and formerly was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Ancient and historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Chetwode 121. CHETWODE. Chetwode, Church of St Mary and St Nicholas. (O.S. 6 in. (a)xvii. N.E. (b)xviii. N.W.) Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Nicholas, stands about 4 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Chetwynd (St. Michael) CHETWYND ( St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Newport, Newport division of the … inhabitants. It is on the road from Birmingham to Chester, and comprises 3738 a. 32 p., of which 122 acres are waste: a … the year 1775. A chapel of ease has been built in the village of Sambrook. There is a small place of worship for …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… CHEVELEY Cheveley occupies a slice of chalk downland and clay-capped hills stretching south-east from Newmarket … from the Cheveley Park estate of all the heath in the parish, comprising 345 a. in 1838. 60 The Jockey Club bought … lower gradients of which provided sites for the church and village, the 14th-century moated castle, and the park of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… HUNDRED. The hundred lies south-east of Newmarket (Suff.), and stretches between the Icknield way on the north-west and a ridge of boulder clay in the south-east. Its eastern … runs along the Old Suffolk Road between Bury St. Edmunds and Dalham (Suff.), and its southwestern boundary partly …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Charities for the poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR. Houses and land were left for the poor of Cheveley under the wills of William Reeve and John Raye, dated 1553 and 1558 respectively. By 1837 the … in coal or cash among the settled poor not on permanent parish relief, according to the number of children in their …