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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… authenticity of Wulfere's charter of 664, mentioning the river going to Elm and to Wisbech as the boundary of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was rebuilt in 1667 on a more substantial scale near the river. 88 Two years later, however, it was in a dangerous …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the burial of executed criminals. The gallows stood on the river bank a little below the Horseshoe corner. 12 A jail was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Johnson in 1710 sums up the situation admirably: 'Wisbech river . . . hath an indifferent descent and the outfall … the problem. The commissioners found that the level of the river bed had been raised 6 ft. or more by silting, so that … should provide a sluice at the Horseshoe, and that the river should be widened from 40 to 60 ft. 9 The …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 34 and it was probably with a view to improving the silted river that Bishop Morton (1479-86) caused his Learn to be cut …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… all the Wisbech schools are on the right bank of the river. This was used as an argument against the Queen's Road …
A History of the County of Sussex
… which is dissected by streams flowing north-east to the river Adur. 99 Part of the south-east boundary is formed by …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… appears well wooded, and is bounded southwardly by the river Idle, which divides it from Mattersey. The turnpike …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… seven miles south-east of Leicester in the valley of the River Sence. Since 1936 it has included most of the former … the most part on the southern side of the Sence, and the river and its tributaries form the parish boundary on the … five miles south-east of Leicester in the valley of the River Sence. It is a chapelry of Wistow and was formerly a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… chalk and flint. The grounds are intersected by the rapid river Allen, which turns a paper-mill giving employment to … on the road from Norwich to Fakenham, and near the river Wensum, on which is an extensive flour-mill. The living … confluence of a small stream called the Braine, with the river Blackwater, on the main road from London to Colchester. …