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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… street stretches north-south at c. 10 m. Beyond it the fen to the west is again virtually level. Other high ground … and south of the village served as open fields, while the fen, not effectively drained until c. 1850, was also common … times the effective boundary between the upland and the fen. 13 Before the lodes were created in Roman times that …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… above O.D. on Newmarket Heath to 10 ft. above O.D. at the fen edge; the N.W. part is fenland and ranges between 10 ft. … at the end of Reach Lode. The village lies close to the fen edge and is now a large settlement extending for nearly 2 … (149) at the further end of which, and parallel with the fen edge, a long winding road forms the N. part of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 10 s. a year to support apprenticeships. 11 When Burwell fen was divided in 1678-9 the parish was allotted for its … possessed c. 1700-30 c. 100 a. of arable with four fen lots and two Town closes. Besides the guildhall, their … the income from the 100 a. and all that arising from the fen lots. It formally devoted the other bequests to their …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in 1841 for a rentcharge of £1,635. Only the 536 a. of fen along the eastern edge whose owners had compounded for … T 128; cf. ibid. SP 18/2; E.A.R. Ennion, Adventurers' Fen, 29. T. Braggs, 'Hist. Parsonage Farm' (1982) (copy in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 'Hall straw', the finest sheaves of sedge cut in the fen, representing over 8,000 sheaves of rushes due from … copyhold of Tiptofts manor, besides 14 messuages and the fen allotted for them, but only 9 a. was so held of … several meadow, called by 1650 Hay Croft, 7 and Burnt fen, so named by 1300, on the north. 8 By 1809 c. 100 a. out …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… still haunted Pout Hall in the far north-west of the fen: 35 229 people claimed in 1892 that intimidation by a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… retained, however, c. 300 a., including 255 a. in the fen, held in their own right, until after 1849. 90 In 1677 … estate had been augmented with at least 366 a. in Burwell fen allotted, mostly in the north-east, for its rights of … the 400-a. Burwell Hall farm, besides c. 280 a. of fen. 93 In 1910 the Crown had at least 444 a. of upland and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Llancillo. There are the remains of a square camp. Byal-Fen BYAL-FEN, an extra-parochial liberty, in the hundred of Ely, Isle …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… what is called the Isle of Ely, is for the most part fen land, and quite level, intersected by numerous canals and … are few trees except pollard willows. The great expanse of fen land in the district comprises nearly half of that … the county; peat earth, extending through the whole of the fen district; and gravel. The soil is chiefly arable, and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge
… area is but a part of those spread out along the water and fen-side in Cambridgeshire, from Barrington to Horningsea, … Age in the district makes with that of the Bronze Age. The fen borders to the N., then, as we have seen, packed with … inter-communication) on the southern margin of the Great Fen. What the Roman (Aulus Plautius?) doubtless had in mind …