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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and St. Paul) WISBECH ( St. Peter and St. Paul), a sea-port, borough, market-town, and parish, and the head of a … annually to London. The importance of the place as a sea-port has much increased of late years, and the trade has been … the number of vessels of above 50 tons registered at the port is 56, and their aggregate burthen 5200 tons. In 1794, a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… It enabled the Corporation to keep control of the port, in connexion with which they adopted, particularly in … wellintentioned but not always beneficial measures. The port of Wisbech still remains a Corporation enterprise, and … and lighting of the streets, and the improvement of the port. During the 18th century, however, despite its ample …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… doubt to the damage done by railways to the trade of the port. For the next generation the population of Wisbech …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… not of the liberty of Ely, which entered or left the port. The demesnes amounted to 1,137 acres. The four … of £13,550 10 s., including £2,980 mercantile stock in the port and the proceeds of the customs and excise. After 1792 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Port, Nene outfall, canal PORT, NENE OUTFALL, CANAL The original combined outfall of … by 1566 there was a certain amount of activity in Wisbech port. In that year there traded from Wisbech 13 keels and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to levy 4 d. toll on foreign ships entering or leaving the port. Since the blocking of the Well Stream, however, the only step taken towards the improvement of the port was the straightening of the course of the Nene by Bishop Morton. Thus the port was still largely inaccessible and the privilege unreal. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… route to Oxford presumably by 1005 when it was called the 'port street', may also have formerly connected with the … End, leading to Crawley, Hailey, and Charlbury, was called Port way by the 15th century, suggesting an important route …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… on the Colne river, and much shipping belongs to the port: it has a regular custom-house establishment, with a …
A History of the County of Essex
… from 6 to 20 which might suggest incipient urban or port development, but between 1086 and 1327 Wivenhoe … in Lexden hundred, 20 reflecting Wivenhoe's growth as a port whose develop- ment was linked with the expanding … for Christmas, presumably unloaded from ships at Wivenhoe port, and four ploughs were brought from Norfolk in 16323. In …