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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… parish in Cambridgeshire, is situated 6 miles north of Wisbech. The Shire Drain divides it on the north and west from the sister parish of Tydd St. Mary in Lincolnshire. This stream has shrunk to a … in Furlong and 1 acre in Great Broad East were taken in exchange for the water mill. The land in the Marsh was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Charters of incorporation CHARTERS OF INCORPORATION Borough of Wisbech Azure represntations of … value, and to lease (up to twenty years), grant, sell and exchange their lands. Householders were to meet in the common …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… area comprised by south-east Holland and Norfolk west of the Ouse. It is situated on the Nene about 12 miles from its present outfall, 94 miles north of London and 40 from Cambridge by road. It is one of a … implement shops; and the cattle market and the former corn exchange are in the immediate vicinity. A third market, for …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Later history of the castle LATER HISTORY OF THE CASTLE Secretary John Thurloe, who purchased the manor … replaced Morton's palace by a house in the style of the time, said to have been designed by Inigo Jones, but …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… is held by prescription. In 1657 John Thurloe, as lord of the manor, was granted a fortnightly market at Wisbech by letters patent. 73 In the 1840's Wisbech was one of the largest if not actually the largest corn market in the … the arches were originally open, was intended for a corn exchange. It was, however, little used for this purpose, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and conventicles were held in Wisbech at the house of Thomas Bouth. 81 The Baptists are the first sect to be … visited their brethren at Wisbech at the invitation of John Milles, a member of the Wisbech congregation, of … St. Mary (q.v.). The sectaries met in the Wool Hall, Exchange Square. 3 In 1851 the remnants of this sect were …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Wiston WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south … comprised 2,842 a. Buncton chapelry, a detached portion of Ashington parish which lay entirely within Wiston and … copyholder in 1370 had surrendered her land to another in exchange for an annuity. From at least the early 16th century …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… Wistow WISTOW Wistow lies seven miles south-east of Leicester in the valley of the River Sence. Since 1936 it has included most of the former civil parish of Newton Harcourt which is a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1613 the borough owned an almshouse and garden on the site of Nos. 2838 Church Green north of the rectory house, comprising three separate tenements in … collected from individual bakers rather than from the Corn Exchange as earlier. Some of the best beef allegedly went to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… history: agriculture AGRICULTURE After the creation of the town Witney manor, encompassing the three rural … with profits from rents and farming forming the bulk of the lord's income: in 1552 the manor was valued at just … 19th century, carried out on a commercial scale. 13 A Corn Exchange was built in 1863, and sale of corn and livestock at …