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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… by the Devil's Ditch, apparently 6th-century, and Reach Old Lode, perhaps originally Roman. 4 Probably since medieval … a mile, before dropping sharply to where the long village street stretches north-south at c. 10 m. Beyond it the fen to … and called the High lode by 1580, 15 but renamed the old lode in the 1670s, 16 runs west from the north end of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… on the axis of the early settlement along part of High Street, N. of St. Mary's church; the former church of St. … of an area of downland on Newmarket Heath and one of old enclosures around Breach Farm (TL 604683). The name … bell in spirelet, by Pack and Chapman, 1776. Bell frame: old and reconstructed. Benefactors' Tables: in W. tower, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… standing close together near the south end of the village street. St. Andrew's on the east was appropriated by 1280. … purposes until the 1850s. 36 As it then stood at the old north-east side of St. Mary's churchyard, it consisted of … windows, suitable for a sacristy, was added beyond the old aisle west wall, over which a window was placed. Its east …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… set, averaging 1 s. an acre, also covered most of the old cash renders, but not the assize rents. Two thirds of the … or less, of whom fifty had under 12 a., equivalent to the old commonright allotments. Most exploited their own plots. … often owner-occupiers, who were concentrated at North Street. In 1841 the twelve farms comprising c. 1,150 a. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… school opened in 1846. Standing off the south end of North Street, it had a long, galleried classroom behind its … end. It was opened in 1861. 77 For the children from North Street, which in 1861 had produced c. 170 out of c. 320 … and 1922 a married couple. 81 St. Andrew's school on North Street remained a mixed one under its own mistress. 82 In …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… sixty, of whom few were in the workhouse, included nine old men. 22 Between 1815 and the 1830s expenditure on poor … had the streets watered by 1872 45 and by 1906 provided street lighting, initially with oil lamps. 46 It procured by …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… already occupied the site c. 300 metres west of the high street, of the present Hall Farm, where the western portion … 88 About 1500 Dullinghams manor house stood east of North Street. 89 The estate, styled by 1400 ST OMERS manor, 90 … east was demolished by the 1830s. The west front to the street was once divided by buttresses, almost all cut away …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… barns were similarly registered, one in 1746 on North Street. 27 There was a regular series of Independent … of High Town, facing Meeting House Lane across the high street. 30 After 1800 the vicars claimed that attendance at … square, greybrick building, facing downhill towards the street over a graveyard enlarged in 1893, 35 has a five-bayed …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… is plastered on the soffit but the lower parts of four old curved braces are exposed. Fittings Bells: three; 2nd … ConditionPoor, some stonework much weathered, tower has an old settlement towards the W. and pointing is very defective. …