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Alumni Oxonienses
… 1500-1714 Wilson-Wood Wilson-Wood Wilson, Aaron of co. Gloucester, cler. fil. Queen's Coll., matric. 16 Oct., … July, 1615, B.D. 25 June, 1627, D.D. 17 May, 1639; rector of St. Stephen, Walbrook, London, 1625, archdeacon of Exeter … of Doctors' Commons 1590; died in 1605, buried at Tallin, isle of Anglesey. See Coote's Civilians, 61; & Fasti, i. 240. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wilton - Wimpole Wilton WILTON, a hamlet, in the parish of Hale, union of Whitehaven, Allerdale ward above Derwent, W. division of … of Doddington, union and hundred of North Witchford, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 4 miles (S.) from March; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and St. Paul), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Norton-Ferris, E. division of … the see extends over the counties of Hants and Surrey, the Isle of Wight, and the islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, … many picturesque islands, the principal of which, Belle Isle, is richly wooded, and adorned with an elegant circular …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WISBECH ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 3 miles (N. W.) from the … and the head of a union, in the hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 43 miles (N.) from …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Chapeiry of Parson Drove CHAPELRY OF PARSON DROVE Parson Drove, … and its neighbourhood were transferred from Holland to the Isle and added to Parson Drove in 1934. 3 The added area is … of the parish; it had formed a projecting salient into the Isle between Parson Drove and Thorney, and had been counted …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… on the Norfolk border between Wisbech and Outwell, is one of the larger parishes in the Isle. It was originally of the long, narrow shape usually … largely to making Elm one of the prettiest villages in the Isle. The 'needle' spire of the church recalls the southern …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Leverington is a large parish and village on the northwest of Wisbech. 1 The lay-out-a frontage upon the Ouse (later the … the same as in the other Marshland villages of the Isle, but in Leverington has been considerably modified. In … the surveys of 1221 and 1251 as some of the others in the Isle. At the earlier date there were 5 free tenants, 64 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Newton NEWTON Newton is a village about 4 miles north of Wisbech, lying just west of the 'Roman Bank'. The parish, … of the elongated shape usual in the marshland areas of the Isle and Holland, stretching from the light silt soils by the … of about 6 square miles it is smaller than the majority of Isle parishes. Until 1934 the old course of the Well Stream …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Each is therefore partly in Norfolk and partly in the Isle of Ely. 1 In the Middle Ages they were collectively known as … general in Marshland. 8 As elsewhere in the north of the Isle, inclosure mostly took place gradually as the land was …
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 … area of pasture. 3 Thorney is the only village in the Isle to have been for a long period the sole property of an … of good domestic architecture than most villages in the Isle. The following houses, besides those above-mentioned, …