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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… doorway, now converted to a window, bears the arms of John Fordham, Bishop of Ely from 1388 to 1426. The stylistic …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Cambridge. The church is said to have been built by Bishop Fordham, who died in 1425; the steeple was blown down by a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and another running from Newmarket north and north-west to Fordham, straightened in 1806, crossed at a junction … 85 In 1604, at the north-western parish boundary where the Fordham road crossed the Snail, there was a bridge, named … using it. 87 In the 19th century and probably before, Fordham and Newmarket roads were frequently used by farmers …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… fen, in 1560 when the men of Snailwell had a dispute with Fordham men, who had recently taken to crossing the parish … drained on account of a fishpond which bordered upon it in Fordham parish, but by 1834 West fen had been drained. 95 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and to 19 by 1932, when the seniors were transferred to Fordham school. 40 In 1933 Snailwell school closed and the juniors also moved to Fordham. 41 In 1961 inhabitants opposed plans to transfer the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… established in 1847, extend over the parishes of Soham, Fordham, Isleham, and Wicken. The parish comprises 12,000 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… projections. In the south-east the existing boundary with Fordham, whose northern part was still reckoned in the 1650s … 17th century when the hitherto intercommonable Soham and Fordham moors were allotted in severalty. 59 Further west the … the lower portion of the Snail running north from Fordham, from at least the 17th century followed a perhaps …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… save those holding of the Netherhall, Barway, Henney, and Fordham manors. What money was not needed for tax relief was … comprised, besides 16½ a. of open-field land in Soham and Fordham, two closes totalling 8½ a., one later called Bond's … c. 75 a. of open field and meadow there and 25 a. in Fordham Hales, to be held by four freeholders of Soham and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… all his costly books to his neighbour, the vicar of Fordham, to providing 13 s. 4 d. for his anniversary over … was raised to buy and prepare 3¾ a. south-west of the Fordham road as a cemetery. It was opened in 1856, the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… parish, partly adjoining and overlapping similar fields in Fordham. 34 Easternmost lay East field, so called from the … field 38 after the adjoining Clipsall close partly in Fordham, recorded by 1270 when it contained meadow. 39 To the … covering 191 a. in 1656, to whose south-east Soham and Fordham then intercommoned on 432 a. 69 Curving round those …