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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… from Bottisham village to the medieval fen edge. 63 South-east of the village White, 64 called c. 1800 Whiteland, … pastures skirting the fen were still often inundated by water from the uplands because the banks along the Cam were … stopped growing barley, planted more potatoes, and sold to London milk from a herd of Ayrshire cattle. 95 In the mid …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… up, covering the whole ancient parish; church and chapel co-operated on it. 96 It obtained the use of both church … at Bottisham village, opened in 1971-2 on a site at the east end of the Park housing estate 10 and still open in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the Newmarket rural district and was included from 1974 in East Cambridgeshire. 7 The former parish gravel pit, 3 a. off …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… been identified as a moat, 100 by 140 ft., a little north-east of the village street. 8 Most of the old inclosures … besides the rectory lease, to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. 43 The hospital, which at inclosure claimed 110 a. of … the lawns south of the house. They were once filled with water by ditches running from the south, and drained by …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… at his house the timber-framed structure off the south-east end of the street, 57 which survived in 1991, remodelled … p. 3. P.R.O., RG 31/2, Ely dioc. no. 87. Ibid. no. 21. East Anglian, N.S. iii. 127; cf. Palmer, Wm. Cole, 17. …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… meadow called Bradeng, lying between the town and the water called Fulbek, and common in every pasture where her …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the foot of Cockin Hill, a steep acclivity which forms the east side of the parish, and the boundary of the South Clay … broad, and the entrance to which is 12 feet deep at low water. Here is a coastguard station. The vicarial tithes have … of Lincoln, 36 miles (S.) from Lincoln, and 97 (N.) from London; containing, with the hamlets of Cawthorpe and Dyke, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… The township is roughly triangular, its apex to the south-east, with a narrow southward extension. The northern … to arable would have been far greater than in 1842. 39 A water mill on the manorial estate, mentioned in 1611, 40 was … 89 until an iron chapel of ALL SAINTS, by Croggon & Co., opened in 1873. 90 It was built at the rector of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Godstow holt to follow another stream a few yards further east, rejoining Shire Lake as it entered the Thames above … way along the road to Wolvercote before turning south-east to follow a newly-made ditch across Port Meadow towards … From Wycroft Lane the routes of c. 1550 and later turned east at 'Lady's Hole' 26 into Burgess mead, up Lark hill to …
A History of the County of Essex
… to 12,011 a. by the addition of small areas from Ardleigh, East Donyland, Langenhoe, Stanway, West Bergholt, and … perambulations began at the Colne in the south-east corner of the liberty and followed Birch or Battles … in 1700 the borough defined Westness as 'beyond Colne water' and 'beyond or near Chich St. Osyth', and in another …