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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Walton (Norf.), 1 is of the elongated shape usual in the marshland areas of the Isle and Holland, stretching from the … or others claiming under them. The remaining part of the marshland was allotted at the rate of 5 acres for each … the early years of the 20th century Newton, like other marshland parishes, had an increasing population, and by 1916 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… written over a hundred years ago with reference to Marshland villages in general, is still applicable to these … in the 1830's some time before they became general in Marshland. 8 As elsewhere in the north of the Isle, inclosure … of 6 19 s. 2 d. 83 The estates of this cell spread over Marshland, in Downham, the Wiggenhalls, Elm, Emneth, Wisbech, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… much given over to orchards and market gardens. As in most Marshland parishes, as opposed to those in the fens proper, … wife. A third of the area at this date was stated to be marshland. 51 CHURCH The advowson has always followed the … Walton (Norf.), and Fleet and Long Sutton (Lincs.). in the marshland. As at West Walton and Long Sutton, and also at …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… mile short of the 'Roman Bank' which bounds all the other marshland parishes of the Isle. The tradition that St. Mary's … provided a firmer foundation than peat, and though all the Marshland villages are more scattered than those farther … suggest that it included all the convent's estates in the marshland vills. A mill was let at 30 s. a year in 1385. 9 In …
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 … 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, … 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
… Wisbech is now the commercial centre of the southern marshland, and the title 'Capital of the Fens', sometimes …
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 …
A History of the County of Essex
… part of the eastern boundary. 87 About 69 a. of parochial marshland on the west bank of the Colne, known as Old Heath …