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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WISBECH ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 3 … The parish comprises 9483 a. 1 r. 5 p., of arable and pasture land in nearly equal portions; 186 acres are … pastures. A building, in the Doric style, was erected for literary purposes, in 1847, at a cost of 3000: it comprises a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… OF PARSON DROVE Parson Drove, originally a township and chapelry of Leverington, became a separate ecclesiastical … Rectory Act (1870). It had long maintained its own poor, 1 and its separate existence for civil purposes was virtually … was sold in 1944. It thereupon became a village hall and institute. 33 In 1952 the trustees of the institute sold the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Leverington LEVERINGTON Leverington is a large parish and village on the northwest of Wisbech. 1 The lay-out-a … outfall, a village site protected by the 'Roman Bank', and a landward extension into the fen-was originally the same … carved woodwork taken from the premises of the Wisbech Literary Society and portions of the lantern tower from the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… elongated shape usual in the marshland areas of the Isle and Holland, stretching from the light silt soils by the Nene … of the district, forms part of the boundary between Newton and Tydd on the northwest. The boundary with Leverington on … 97 The old school has been purchased by the Newton Women's Institute. By the M. of H. Prov. Orders Conf. (Ely, Holland …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Outwell and Upwell OUTWELL AND UPWELL These two villages lie astride … in 1868 and is still in use. 10 The Outwell Working Men's Institute at Outwell dates from 1891, though the building is … the Church authorities, who established an Institute and Literary Association in it; it is now the parish hall. 74 In …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… differently constituted, with narrow frontages to the Bank and long extensions into the fen. Since, moreover, Thorney is on peat and not on silt fen, the orchards and market gardens which are such a feature of the Wisbech …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… The vicar was to receive the tithes except those of flax and wool. Land and other tithes were assigned to him for conducting the … Balsham appropriated the church of Wisbech to the prior and convent of Ely, with the rectory house and a house for …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the main feature of Wisbech life in the later Middle Ages and was the direct ancestor of the Corporation. It is reputed … at the petition of its alderman, chaplain, four brethren and four sisters. The guildsmen were then licensed to found a … celebrate at the altar of Holy Trinity in Wisbech church and to grant to the chaplains lands in mortmain to the value …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… remained a quarter-sessions town ever since; the January and July sessions for the Isle are held here, those in April … eighty-one volumes to the library thus inaugurated. 33 A Literary Society was founded in 1781. Its books were … to 800. In 1898 the Wisbech Working Men's Club and Institute was the most financially successful of all English …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Poor relief and apprenticeship POOR RELIEF AND APPRENTICESHIP As in some other towns the relief of the … collections from householders, certain benefactions, 24 and the interest on 'town stock'. In the period between 24 …