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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… MARY Wisbech St. Mary, one of the larger parishes of the Isle, covers an area of some 10,000 acres 1 on the left … Bank' which bounds all the other marshland parishes of the Isle. The tradition that St. Mary's church was the mother … Peter). Wisbech St. Mary is the least nucleated of all the Isle parishes. The silt soil which covers the northeastern …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… were destroyed. A general collection throughout the Isle yielded £14 0 s. 10 d., including £4 16 s. 5 d. from …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… with that of some of the most valuable manors in the Isle, such as Doddington, Sutton, and Whittlesey St. Andrew. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech is the largest and only corporate town in the Isle, and the nodal point for the whole marshland area … alterations were made. Portions of Leverington in the Isle and of Emneth and Walsoken in Norfolk, already much … increase of about 120 per cent. was similar to that of the Isle as a whole, but below that of Cambridge, where the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… which is the only one of the Marshland vills of the Isle to be mentioned in Domesday, probably comprised the … seems, however, to have been a general falling-off in the Isle manors during the first half of the 14th century. Bp.'s …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… from at least 1515-16 7 until 1836 when the liberty of the Isle of Ely was abolished. Assizes were held half-yearly, … town ever since; the January and July sessions for the Isle are held here, those in April and October at Ely. 9 The … 16 Wisbech was also in some degree the county town of the Isle until the building of the county hall at March in 1908. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… first named officer was also deputy chief constable of the Isle. 20 It is now merged in the Isle force. A town inspector was appointed under the Wisbech …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… maps, since until 1934 it formed the boundary between the Isle of Ely and Norfolk. Walker and Craddock, Hist. Wisb. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… fact the bishops, who had three other palaces in the Isle and one just outside at Somersham (Hunts.), do not seem …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… after Queen Mary, and was the first of its kind in the Isle. New classrooms for handicrafts and domestic science … as well as Wisbech itself. 94 The county boundary of the Isle and Norfolk, based on the old course of the Well Stream, … responsible for the education of senior children, and the Isle for juniors, in parishes like Elm, Emneth, Outwell, and …