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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… by a supplementary award of 1851. 4 At the present day a large part of the land is devoted to fruit, potatoes, and … passed to the Pecks, who added to the house the block of large rooms on the south side. Thomas Patrick of Lynn, who … transferred to the rectory of Newton, which explains the large amount of glebe-at one time some 400 acres in 11 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… be 'the longest village in England'. They also form a very large village community. In 1931 the population of the four … district has subsequently been much altered by several large drains which run through these and neighbouring … increased from 265 in 1801 to 1,019 in 1921, a very large increase even for a fen village; there was a slight …
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 … Thorney, and slightly above the average for the country at large. 6 The munificence of a great landowner has not … register from 1654 to 1727. 19 The settlement was fairly large; the register shows an average of 29 births a year in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the north aisle and is corbelled out on the exterior. The large west window of the nave is of mid-14th-century date and … with flowing tracery. It is flanked on the outside by large 14th-century buttresses with three setoffs and a … rectilinear tracery in the two-centred head. There is a large pinnacle at the north-east angle. Plan of St. Giles's …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Littleport (27), among the rural parishes of the Isle. A large section of the parish falls within the Wisbech … portraying a man and woman standing on either side of a large vessel. There are some stone roof corbels carved with … cup, standing paten, flagon, and dish, all plated, and a large almsdish of Sheffield plate and parcel gilt with the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the constable and besieged the castle, so that a large garrison had to be maintained and the business of rent …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… century the chancel was rebuilt on an enlarged scale and a large chapel added on the south side, the south aisle was … over them. The east arch of the tower was removed and a large window was inserted in the west wall. The southwest … which prove that the tower was engaged by the aisles. The large west window of four lights with tracery of 14th-century …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… as in some neighbouring villages or in the country at large. The 1849 cholera epidemic, however, affected Wisbech …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… fire equipment should consist of 24 leather buckets, 3 large ladders, and 3 'cromes' with 14-yard ropes fastened to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… (west) bank of the river, and is not very far from the large moat at the north end of Barton Field, which is the … in 1790, however, found Wisbech 'an ugly dull town, with a large canal through it in the Dutch taste' and his inn was …