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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wiswell Wisbech (St. Mary) WISBECH ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of … comprises 9483 a. 1 r. 5 p., of arable and pasture land in nearly equal portions; 186 acres are common or waste. The … vicarage of Wisbech St. Peter. The church is principally in the later English style, with a large square tower. At …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… existence for civil purposes was virtually recognized in 1874, when a separate Parson Drove School Board was established. 2 The parish consists in effect of the fen end of Leverington; it has no separate manorial history, and may be compared in status with Gedney Hill over the border in the Parts of …
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 … a larger area of pasture. 3 Thorney is the only village in the Isle to have been for a long period the sole property …
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 … as it has done, two counties, two dioceses, and in all probability two AngloSaxon kingdoms. The upper part of …
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 exchange their lands. Householders were to meet in the common hall annually from 1 November 1550 to choose …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Protestant nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY In 1638 unlawful meetings and conventicles were held in Wisbech at the house of Thomas Bouth. 81 The Baptists are … Baptists had 26 members but no resident pastor. 92 Later ministers of this congregation included Joseph Proud …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 67 Henry Banyer ( fl. 1739), medical writer, who practised in the town; and Richard Wright (1764-1836), Unitarian … A biography by E. L. Griggs (1936). D.N.B. All references in this section are to this source, unless otherwise stated. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… were 'transferred from another detached part of Ashington in 1933. In 1960 50 a. were transferred from Wiston to Ashington. The … was sold to Charles Goring. 60 The Committee for Plundered Ministers had presented c. 1652, 61 and the Crown by lapse in …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… manor of Meathop and Ulpha with land at Crackenthorpe in Beetham was an early feoffment by one of the lords of Beetham in the twelfth century. Henry de Bethum (125156), also named … 1188. Roger, son and heir of Henry de Midhop, was living in 1290. The Chartulary or Coucher Book of Furness Abbey …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the rectory house, comprising three separate tenements in which 'the poor of the borough are placed'; when and how … value until the loan was repaid, and further improvements in 1814, including addition of kitchens, were funded … of his heir at law, the Independent and Wesleyan Methodist ministers, and a representative of the Witney Quakers. Robert …