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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is quarried for roads and for building rough walls. A cattle-fair is held on the 20th of August. The living is a … August 21st, September 22nd, and November 26th, for cattle; and on the Thursday before Old Michaelmas-day, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… years since, takes place every Wednesday; and fairs for cattle are held on the Tuesday before Palm-Sunday, and on … 8th, Sept. 8th, and the third Tuesday in November, for cattle, the last being also a statute-fair. The town is …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is numerously attended by the London dealers; and a large cattle-fair on August 12th, at which as many as 3000 head of cattle have been brought for sale. The market and fairs are … it on the 16th of July and 20th of November, for horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs. The living is a discharged vicarage, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… across the eastern end at Gates End Bridge, to prevent cattle straying upon Overdyke Bank. Pepys, who visited Parson …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of the strangest of mortals, letting his wild colts and cattle of 20 or 30 years old come into the very house, which …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was discontinued in 1830, but the fairs, for horses and cattle, were still much patronized in 1879; 11 they were held … country between Crowland, Spalding, Wisbech, and Ely. Many cattle were then drowned and houses flooded, and the colza …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… time the building of the custom house, corn exchange, and cattle market severely taxed the resources of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… offices, and seed and implement shops; and the cattle market and the former corn exchange are in the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… English corn markets. 75 There are now weekly markets for cattle on Mondays and for general produce on Saturdays. 76 … before Whitsun, 25 July, and 1 and 2 August. Hemp, flax, cattle, and horses were the principal goods exchanged. 78 In … the erection of a town hall and the construction of a cattle market. The lower story of the Town Hall, of which the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… date the chief imports were timber, seed potatoes, grain, cattle, foodstuffs, and petroleum, while potatoes, scrap …