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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Newton NEWTON Newton is a village about 4 miles north of Wisbech, lying just west of … roads were laid out: Sutton or Lincolnshire Road (10 a. 2 r. 28 p.). Hundred Acre or Wesel Hill Drove (now known as the … (d. 1910). In 1920 it was sold by John Wing's trustees to G. F. Hoyles, who lived there until his death in 1951. The …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… are absolutely continuous, so that it is impossible for a stranger to tell where one ends and the other begins. … a light railway of 4 ft. 8 in. gauge, was opened by the G.E.R. in 1884; 4 it conveyed passengers until 1928, and is still …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Thorney THORNEY This large parish 1 is of a different type from the others in Wisbech hundred. Its … about two miles east of Thorney village, is an exception. R. W. L. Melbourne, Isle of Ely (Land of Britain, 71), 279, … cartulary which the former had recently bought. e.g. the takers of ducks' eggs and herons' eyries in 1275 ( …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Tydd St. Mary in Lincolnshire. This stream has shrunk to a shadow of its former self but is an important boundary, … men or goods. Staithes were quite common in East Anglia, e.g. the Staithe in Wisbech (now called Staithe Road) on the … in the parish terrier 31 'Mr. Robert Girling bought all R. Welby's land and sold it to Mr. Wood'. Simon Wood 32 was a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… by the fact that the parish boundary stops more than a mile short of the 'Roman Bank' which bounds all the other … The Peterborough- Sutton Bridge branch of the former M. & G.N. Joint Railway, opened in 1866, 3 has stations in the … above is a shield with the date 1660 and the initials R.P. There is a base course. The open timber bell-cote has …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was to be one). The towns were to make loans of £20, to a maximum of £200, to young men to enable them to set up in … Chancery, the Corporation sold the property to carry out a street improvement and invested the proceeds in 3½ per … xxiv), of which pp. 275-330 deal with Wisbech, and R. Gardner's Directory of Cambs. for 1851, which contains a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of St. Peter and St. Paul or standing within a double canopy or. (Granted 1929.) The charter of 1549, 45 making Wisbech a corporate borough for the first time, cost £260 10 s. 10 d. … voted in the later years of the unreformed Corporation, e.g. 166 in 1815, 172 in 1818, 160 in 1821, 129 in 1822, 80 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… follows: William de Longchamp held 80 acres as 1 fee, with a messuage in the New Market belonging thereto, and also 240 acres at a money rent (20 s.). Henry de Walpol held 80 acres with 4 … 270. B.M. Harl. Chart. 50, 55. L. & P. Hen. VIII, xix, i, g. 610 (54). Undated MS. at Wisb. Mus. Cal. Pat. 132730, 549. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Styrmin was paid 40 s. for his charges laid out after a fire in the Old Market. 56 Another fire in the same quarter … occurred in 1652, when some almshouses were destroyed. A general collection throughout the Isle yielded £14 0 s. 10 … property of the Corporation let for about £7 a year (e.g. Corp. Rec. iii, 91). Corp. Rec. iv, 124-5. Ibid. 133 b, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of London and 40 from Cambridge by road. It is one of a series of settlements spaced at two- to three-mile … were the filling up of vacant spaces in this district, e.g. Kingsley Avenue and Hillburn Road, and intensified … Gardiner, Hist. Wisb. 78-79. Map dated 1850 (Wisb. Mus.); R. Gardner, Dir. Cambs. (1851), 624. V.C.H. Cambs. ii, 133; …