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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… This large parish 1 is of a different type from the others in Wisbech hundred. Its nucleus is an island of gravel, not … has proceeded outwards from this nucleus, resulting in an oblong area some 6 miles east to west by 4 miles north … chapels and schools. 14 The railway from Peterborough to Sutton Bridge, opened in 1866, 15 crosses the centre of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… TYDD ST. GILES Tydd St. Giles, the northernmost parish in Cambridgeshire, is situated 6 miles north of Wisbech. The … the north and west from the sister parish of Tydd St. Mary in Lincolnshire. This stream has shrunk to a shadow of its … parish is crossed by the main road from Wisbech to Long Sutton (A 1101) and the Peterborough to Sutton Bridge branch …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Nene. It appears to have emerged from Wisbech (St. Peter) in 1109 when Wisbech vill was divided between the Bishop of … and convent. That this separation had not taken place in early times is suggested by the fact that the parish … runs along the north edge of the parish. The Peterborough- Sutton Bridge branch of the former M. & G.N. Joint Railway, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of a common seal. 47 They were to hold the guild property in socage, and were licensed to acquire further property up to £100 in value, and to lease (up to twenty years), grant, sell and … opposed without success several schemes of improvement-in Sutton Marsh (1719) and in Thorney Fen and the Bedford level …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… It became indeed the main feature of Wisbech life in the later Middle Ages and was the direct ancestor of the Corporation. It is reputed to have originated in 1379, the year of the earliest surviving account. 99 … the most valuable manors in the Isle, such as Doddington, Sutton, and Whittlesey St. Andrew. By 1614, when a schedule …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… WISBECH Wisbech is the largest and only corporate town in the Isle, and the nodal point for the whole marshland area … of the Well Stream, which divided Wisbech from Walsoken in Norfolk, to the far end of Wisbech High Fen beyond … in the Bishop of Ely's manor of Doddington, and (ii) in Sutton Fen with the tenants of the royal manor of Long Sutton …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… £200 on a new sluice, which was broken by a sea flood in or before 1523, 4 but by 1566 there was a certain amount of activity in Wisbech port. In that year there traded from Wisbech 13 … but to offer no objection if it were at the Washway (Sutton Bridge). 24 John Wing, writing to Lord Lansdowne on …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WIVELISCOMBE ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of … ravine" or "dell." The town occupies a gentle eminence, in an extensive valley inclosed by lofty hills, which … to erect a mansion at Hoe Place, in the neighbourhood. Sutton Place, a fine specimen of the style of building that …
A History of the County of Essex
… apparently remained comparatively small and insignificant. In 1327 its assessment for subsidy was one of the lowest of the parishes in Lexden hundred; the lord of the manor was the only large … apparently providing dairy produce and animals for John Sutton's Navestock manor, 30 and in 1508, and probably …
A History of the County of Essex
… form an estuary, covered 1,549 a. (627 ha.). 85 Its port in the south-west corner of the parish, which served … into a small town. Wivenhoe became an urban district in 1898, and remained so until 1974 when it became part of … and the river Colne and its marshes on the west and south. In 1734 woodland formed part of the eastern boundary. 87 …