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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Doddington, union and hundred of North Witchford, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 4 miles (S.) from March; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 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
… 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 … which is at present the most flourishing place in the Isle of Ely. The town is situated on both sides of the river …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 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 … operation until about 1910, when the farm was sold to the Isle of Ely County Council for small holdings. The structure …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 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 … 12 MANORS Like the other vills in the extreme north of the Isle, with the exception of Wisbech, ELM is not mentioned in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 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 … held at quit-rents. 39 As in the capitular manors in the Isle proper, lands in this manor were leased at beneficial …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 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 … market-gardening, as in all the northern parishes of the Isle. THE MARSHES Like Leverington, Tydd, and other parishes …
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 … general in Marshland. 8 As elsewhere in the north of the Isle, inclosure mostly took place gradually as the land was … with the episcopal property in other vills in the Isle. There were no tenants by military service, and only 4 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 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, … of 330, were transferred from Whittlesey under the Isle of Ely Review Order, 1933 (M. of H. No. 76940). A large …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 2 The neighbouring parish on the south is Newton-in-the-Isle. The most important watercourse in the parish, after the … 1291. 52 At the last date it was one of the richest in the Isle. In 1535, however, the value was only £21 13 s. 53 The … and Long Sutton, and also at certain churches in the Isle, e.g. Littleport and March, the tower rested on open …