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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… (Essex). 11 The priory of Spinney held 40 acres in Wisbech Fen, worth 10 s. in 1291, 12 and known as Spineylond in 1347. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… town in the Isle, and the nodal point for the whole marshland area comprised by south-east Holland and Norfolk … from Walsoken in Norfolk, to the far end of Wisbech High Fen beyond Guyhirn, where the boundary marched with … New Walsoken had begun to develop along Norwich (formerly Marshland) Road. 30 By 1837 this suburb had some 280 houses, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… however, that Wisbech, which is the only one of the Marshland vills of the Isle to be mentioned in Domesday, … novi feoffati at Waldersea and 3 at Rumere 63 in the upper fen, 64 and there was pasture estimated at 20 acres. This … under Barton manor modo in manu Dom. Reginae in the map of Marshland preserved in Wisb. Mus. It is dated 1657 but stated …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Union, which included the Rural Districts of Wisbech and Marshland (Norfolk) as well as the borough. In the early …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… sect to be mentioned by name. In 1655 two Baptists from Fen Stanton (Hunts.) visited their brethren at Wisbech at the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech is now the commercial centre of the southern marshland, and the title 'Capital of the Fens', sometimes … 290). He lived at Nos. 7 and 8 South Brink. Survey of a Fen County (Draft Report of the County Planning Dept.), Map …
A History of the County of Essex
… originally for dairying as well as wool, as in other Essex marshland parishes where grazing in salt meadows gave …