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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… by the Cam, from which river is a cut called Swaffham Lode, navigable to the village. It is situated about two …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… was assured by the revival of water-borne trade from the Lode and possibly by the construction of a mill on the site … at Commercial End may have become necessary when Swaffham Lode was rendered unnavigable beyond Swaffham Mill where the … of boats. A straight ditch (79) running eastward from the Lode may indicate an early cut to a wharf on the W. side of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… follows the slightly meandering line along which Swaffham Lode ran before its 17th-century straightening. 32 To the … reckoned its fen commons to stretch east as far as Reach Lode, 34 was left with barely a quarter of the estimated … west of Commercial End, into the south end of Swaffham Lode, and then follow the natural drainage northwards over …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… from neighbouring parishes such as Bottisham and Wicken. 65 In 1428 butchers in particular were forbidden to … still then letting two fisheries, on the Cam and in the lode. Thomas Rudston as lessee put up a fisher's cot by the … together with 75 a. of a wide droveway to it beside the lode, and probably another 65 a. south of those lots. 96 In …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the school. He used the whole sum in 1721 to buy 11½ a. at Wicken, whose rent supported the first two recorded masters … school. 56 In the 1980s much of the rent, c. £600 from the Wicken land, still then retained, was accumulated: part was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… a public landing place near the south end of Swaffham Lode and c. 50 a., mostly beside that lode, whose rents, by 1835 £28 net, were to maintain certain …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… It is bounded on the N.E. by the Devil's Dyke and Reach Lode. The village consists of a long street running parallel … a subsidiary settlement similar to Commercial End and Lode, each of which was situated at the head of a waterway. … the parish boundary between Swaffham Prior, Burwell and Wicken. Probably in the early 1650 s a straight new Lode was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… has, probably since the Middle Ages, run along Old Reach Lode; 96 its northernmost section followed the lode's former course, slightly further out. 97 In the south … the river bank, in the far north close to Upware hamlet in Wicken parish. By 1851 and into the 1880s there were c. 30 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… held cottage lectures at the distant Upware hamlet near Wicken, and from the 1880s occasional missions. But, although … (Rec. Com.), 267; Inq. Non. (Rec. Com.), 211; cf. below, Wicken, church. P.R.O., CP 25/1/25/28, no. 4; Hailstone, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… a.) and Ducketts (325 a.), 85 lay east of it towards Reach Lode. The common pasture in the fens, sometimes subject to …