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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… by boat, locally grown produce, including that of the fens: 48 from the early 14th century to the mid 15th the fen …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… Stephen fortified a number of posts on the edges of the fens; Burwell Castle was one. It was constructed partly on … to 3 ft. above the water level and to 68 ft. above the fens. On the S.W. side the Lode has no retaining bank for the … Burwell Lode had been cut by 1685 (C.R.O., Moore's Map of Fens); although there is no direct evidence, the work was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… whole parish, did not exercise its rights over Burwell's fens, since their only produce, sedge, was worth too little … the cost of collection. When from the 1810s parts of the fens began to be cultivated, largely as grass fields, its …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… farmers having 100-200 each in the 1810s. 36 The fens, including the lodes, were fished; the size of nets in … 37 Fishing continued into the 20th century. 38 The fens' main use from the Middle Ages was as common to provide … were said to gather and sell all the sedge from their fens. Some then wintered cattle there to manure their land, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… from 1350, 94 responsible for managing the drainage of the fens. In the 16th century villagers were expected to perform …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… belonging to the crown for Byal, West, Hale, and Grunty Fens, have been commuted for 400. Byers-Green BYERS-GREEN, a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a considerable thoroughfare, since the draining of the fens, and the formation of excellent roads towards the east … Francis, Earl of Bedford, who had a large property in the fens, to undertake it, to which that nobleman acceded; and a … including all persons possessing 100 acres in the fens. The Great Level, comprising a tract of about 400,000 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge
… p. xxxii, which shows the river system and the southern fens in relation to forested, or comparatively open, country. … in some of the Cambridgeshire parishes bordering on the Fens. King Henry began to acquire land in Cambridge for his …