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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and some constructional features are similar to those of Burwell castle, which was begun by King Stephen in 1143 when …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Heath. Reach REACH, a hamlet, partly in the parish of Burwell, hundred of Staploe, and partly in that of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… civil parish of Reach was created in 1953 out of parts of Burwell and Swaffham Prior parishes. It covers about 1200 … amalgamation of two separate secondary settlements, one in Burwell and the other in Swaffham Prior, which stood on … in the early medieval period. At this time neither Burwell nor Swaffham Prior had direct access to the Cam by …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Prior, in which most of its inhabitants lived, and of Burwell. Only in 1954 were 698 a. detached from Swaffham Prior and 436 a. from Burwell to form a separate civil parish, covering later 459 … Swaffham fen against flooding from the then undrained Burwell fen. The existing Lode, largely following the earlier …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… CHAPELS. Probably in the 1220s the rector of St. Mary's, Burwell, with the consent of his patron, the abbot of Ramsey, … of St. John, standing north-east of Reach green, on the Burwell side. It eventually had an endowment of 45 a., … yielding c. 1550 only 23 s. 4 d. net, held of manors in Burwell. After 1547 it was confiscated and in 1552 sold by …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the 16th, corn being taken to Ramsey abbey from its Burwell manor was shipped through Reach. 77 In 1279 and 1318 … there c. 1750. 27 About 1300 Ramsey abbey's bailiff at Burwell was buying at Reach fair iron to make ploughshares … of the green, sometimes stretched for half a mile down the Burwell road. 35 Sales were partly of riding nags, but …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… c. 30 in 1938, 12 the older children having been sent to Burwell from 1923. When Reach school was finally closed in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… a constable, 56 and c. 1610 a fenreeve. 57 Ramsey abbey's Burwell court, which had also taken presentments from …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… registered for dissenting worship in 1741. 98 About 1820 a Burwell merchant, Edward Ball, shocked by the Anglican … seat up to 350 people. Normally linked from the 1860s to Burwell Congregationalist chapel, the Reach chapel remained … 4 Mar. 1854, p. 8; 27 June 1863, p. 5. For Ball, below, Burwell, intro.; econ. hist.; nonconf. P.R.O., RG 31/2, Ely …
Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland
… of Norwich. [ Cal. Pet. i. 145.] 15 Kal. May. Edmund de Burwell, monk of Westminster. Ibid. Richard Laxeman and Joan …