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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… inhabitants. This parish, which is situated on the river Colne, comprises about 7000 acres: the soil is generally a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 1599 inhabitants. The village is situated on the Colne river, and much shipping belongs to the port: it has a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… is a parish and small town on the left bank of the Colne, 3 m. S.E. of Colchester. The church, Wivenhoe Hall and …
A History of the County of Essex
… In 1986 the part of Wivenhoe on the west side of the Colne was transferred to St. Barnabas's, Old Heath. 5 The …
A History of the County of Essex
… road, and Wivenhoe wood in the south-west beside the Colne. Field names suggest there was once woodland north of … and herrings were recorded. 79 Rights to fish in the river Colne were often disputed with Colchester borough, but in … had their own layings at Tollesbury and bought brood from Colne smacks dredging off Norfolk and further north. They …
A History of the County of Essex
… south-east of Colchester on the east bank of the river Colne where it widens to form an estuary, covered 1,549 a. … and Whit- more heaths on the north-east, and the river Colne and its marshes on the west and south. In 1734 woodland … About 69 a. of parochial marshland on the west bank of the Colne, known as Old Heath common or meadow, was isolated when …
A History of the County of Essex
… 1st earl of Oxford, granted land in Wivenhoe to Earl's Colne priory. At the Dissolution it was granted to John de … 'Register of parks and gardens', part 15, Essex PRN 2400. Colne Cart. 21; V.C.H. Essex, ii. 104. Cart. St. John of …
A History of the County of Essex
… Rebow of Wivenhoe Park. The church soon afterwards rented Colne House, West Street, for a manse. 74 During the vigorous …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1531. Wyke, Nicholas B.A. 3 May, 1533; perhaps rector of Colne Rogers, co. Gloucester, 1554. See Foster's Index Eccl. …
A History of the County of Essex
… northwards to the river Stour and southwards to the river Colne. From the Stour the ground rises southwards to reach a … water was piped from a spring in an adjacent field. 50 The Colne and Stour Valley scheme supplied mains water from 1935. …