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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… miles (N. N. W.) from Newbury; containing 337 inhabitants, and comprising 2084 a. 26 p. The chapel is dedicated to St. … tithes have been commuted for 530, the vicarial for 200, and there is a glebe of 16 acres. A school is endowed with 10 … father of John and Charles Wesley who founded the sect of Methodists, and author of several poems on religious …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Skipton, E. division of the wapentake of Staincliffe and Ewcross, W. riding of York, 7 miles (N. W. by N.) from … inhabitants. It is situated on the east side of the Aire, and intersected by a tributary of that river. There is a … of worship for Independents, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists; and a national school. A bequest amounting to 16 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WISBECH ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 3 … The parish comprises 9483 a. 1 r. 5 p., of arable and pasture land in nearly equal portions; 186 acres are … There are places of worship for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists. A school is endowed with 5 per annum; and here is …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… OF PARSON DROVE Parson Drove, originally a township and chapelry of Leverington, became a separate ecclesiastical … Rectory Act (1870). It had long maintained its own poor, 1 and its separate existence for civil purposes was virtually … end of Leverington; it has no separate manorial history, and may be compared in status with Gedney Hill over the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Hundred Elm ELM Elm, on the Norfolk border between Wisbech and Outwell, is one of the larger parishes in the Isle. It … shape usually found in Wisbech hundred, with the church and village on the firm silt land at the north-east end, just … The alterations made under the county Review Order of 1933 and the Ministry of Health Provisional Orders Confirmation …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Leverington LEVERINGTON Leverington is a large parish and village on the northwest of Wisbech. 1 The lay-out-a … outfall, a village site protected by the 'Roman Bank', and a landward extension into the fen-was originally the same … other at Leverington village belonging to the Primitive Methodists and dating from 1843. 19 Both chapels still stand. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… elongated shape usual in the marshland areas of the Isle and Holland, stretching from the light silt soils by the Nene … of the district, forms part of the boundary between Newton and Tydd on the northwest. The boundary with Leverington on … in Newton in 1676. 89 In 1869 both the Free and Primitive Methodists erected chapels. The latter chapel was closed …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Outwell and Upwell OUTWELL AND UPWELL These two villages lie astride … was of especially early foundation, though the Wesleyan Methodists in Upwell dated from 1814 and the Methodist … Nordelph date from 1888 and 1861 respectively. Primitive Methodism obtained a very large following. The chapels of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… differently constituted, with narrow frontages to the Bank and long extensions into the fen. Since, moreover, Thorney is on peat and not on silt fen, the orchards and market gardens which are such a feature of the Wisbech …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… north of Wisbech. The Shire Drain divides it on the north and west from the sister parish of Tydd St. Mary in … separating, as it has done, two counties, two dioceses, and in all probability two AngloSaxon kingdoms. The upper … eastern boundary of the parish is also a county boundary, and was in 1934 adjusted to conform with the modern course of …