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Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers
… Thomas Bryan. For a new lease of marsh lands in Balderton. Fen, co. Notts, and Tiddington Farm, co. Warwick. Ibid., p. …
Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers
… Book IV. pp. 4668. Same to same - For same of 100 acres of fen land in Balderton, co. Notts, of which John Sherman prays … of the Pipe or his Deputy. For a lease of 100 acres of fen lands in Balderton, co. Notts, to John Sherman. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… two distinct portions, one of which is high and the other fen land. The former, comprising 2734 acres, is considerably …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… land for the poor, which was shortly invested in 3 a. of fen in Chittering. 11 A Chancery decree of 1729 vested all …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… rectorial glebe included 35- 40 a. of arable and 8 a. of fen, 98in 1814 30 a. of arable and 12 a. of fen. 99The bishop and his lessee were then allotted 55 a. for … to be taken in kind, as were those of the Adventurers' Fen, paid to the vicar, until they were commuted in the 1830s …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… styled a common field. Another 40-a. field, then called Fen close, 5 was perhaps the 39-a. Hall field allotted to the … 1440s. 10 From c. 1370 parts were distinguished as Rush Fen or Hollow, Lugg Hollow, 11 and later, by the 1540s, Reed … at Denny gradually inclosed extensive areas of the fen alongside the Roman road. That process was probably …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and labourers' daughters. The families living in the fen sent only 40 children to school in 1851, compared with c. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… R.A.F. airfield. 1 The eastern half of the parish remained fen pasture until after 1800. In 1636 there were reckoned to be c. 3,375 a. of common fen and wet ground there, 2of which 750 a. were allotted to … Bedford Level in 1637. 3Most of that land, the later North Fen, 638 a. in the far north of the parish, was for a time …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the rectory lease, and probably most of the Adventurers' Fen ( c. 465 a. by 1760), was assigned upon a partition to … Standleys gradually broke up the estate, Adventurers' Fen being sold by 1800. 36 After Henry's death in 1812 Persis … 1910 he also owned two other farms of c. 350 a. in Joist Fen. He sold Denny Lodge farm to the tenant in 1912. Winfold …
A History of the County of Essex
… century. 171 Land in the 'new marsh', once of Roger atte Fen, was mentioned in 1323. 172 By that date reclamation was …