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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… lay-out of the villages, but the topography of the whole district has subsequently been much altered by several large … to the houses... and though the country cannot boast of rural beauty, there is an air of neatness and of greater … dying here and in Nordelph in less than two months. 7 The district was already known for its market-gardens in the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… has been energetically continued by the Thorney Rural District Council. Although this body controls one of the … the total. This proportion was far above the average for rural districts of the size of Thorney, and slightly above …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… conditions prevail, and Littleport (27), among the rural parishes of the Isle. A large section of the parish … 1878, when Guyhirn was made a separate ecclesiastical district and the patronage vested in the Bishop of Ely. 57 … in 1857, which became the church of an ecclesiastical district thirteen years later. The parish includes Southea in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of £24,800. 52 They supply the whole of the borough and rural district, and a wide area around. The Water Company has now been transformed by statute into the Wisbech and District Water Board. 53 Sewage works at Foul Anchor, in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… were transferred to Wisbech Borough, and the more rural parts of the latter were transferred to Elm and to March Urban District. The effect of these Orders was to reduce the … consider that the town was likely to increase much; the rural part of the borough contained only about ninety houses, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Jail (see below) the weekly Petty Sessions of the Wisbech district have also been held here; the daily magistrates' … a memorial of the jubilee of King George V. 41 The local District Nursing Association was founded in 1898. 42earlier …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1834 for the whole of Wisbech Union, which included the Rural Districts of Wisbech and Marshland (Norfolk) as well as …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 50 From 1894 the parish formed part of Thakeham rural district, being transferred to Chanctonbury rural district in 1933, 51 and Horsham district in 1974. …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… was transferred to Wistow and a small part to Oadby Urban District. 11 The area of the chapelry was 1,143 a. Newton …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… township and the township of Burnage are assigned as a district. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage … embracing the town of Preston, the river Ribble, and the district of the Fylde. Excellent stone is quarried, suitable … the interior was repainted and ornamented in 1846. A district has been assigned to it, comprising the whole of …