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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… burst at Abel's Gull. After this a farm of 407 acres at English Drove, Thorney, several miles from the breach, had to … a 1 d. rate produced only £25, a smaller sum than for any English rural district except Broadwood Widger (Devon). M. of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… are that the name is derived from ( a) Tidi, an Old English personal name used in the 9th century from which a … St. Edmunds (Lines.). Wren's charity originated when the English fleet attacked the Dutch in Sole Bay in 1672. One of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 9 In 1513 he was required to translate the statutes into English, and in 1531 to read them out at the dinner on …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… dated 1720 and with the weights and pendulum running in a channel cut in the thickness of the wall. No. 7 was the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech ranked second only to Wakefield among the English corn markets. 75 There are now weekly markets for …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and Institute was the most financially successful of all English working men's clubs, having 1,136 members, a revenue …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 3 No attempt seems to have been made to reopen the Nene channel until about 1480, when the flow of water was improved … that the inland water was no longer able to flow down the channel from Guyhirn, but rather the other way. The town of … sufficiently improved to carry away the upland waters, the channel would be so deepened as to undermine the proposed …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the 18th century this congregation, like many of the English Presbyterians, seems to have become Unitarian. Its …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… prevented the town from ever becoming one of the great English ports of the Middle Ages. The Alcock survey of 1492, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… acres. The church is a large handsome edifice in the later English style, with a square tower, which is the only … The church is a handsome structure, chiefly in the later English style, with a lofty square embattled tower. There is … and handsome edifice with a tower of brick, in the later English style, and contains many ancient monuments, including …