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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… practically adjoins Wisbech. It is divided by the Wisbech Canal, formerly the Well Stream, into Elm High and Elm Low … Roads; the series of pools which is all that remain of the canal contribute largely to making Elm one of the prettiest …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 2 With these waterways may also be numbered the Wisbech Canal, now disused, which followed the course of the Well … road from Wisbech to Downham Market (A 1122) following the canal; the Wisbech-Ely road (A 1101), which leaves this at … in 1572 and later a judge, who died at the Black Assize at Oxford (1577). 31 The marriage seems to have taken place …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… exist in Stermyn Street, between Church Terrace and the canal. Five one-story cottages in Love Lane, called Castle …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… its name. The Well Stream, now represented by the Wisbech Canal, 22 formerly carried the main outfall of the Great … goods, and the narrow blocks of buildings between the canal, Norfolk Street, 27 and West Street represent the sites … a 'hard core' between the Market Place, the river and the canal, ribbon development along the Nene above the bridge in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… form, but an ordinary almshouse was built (1815) on the canal side and endowed under this charity, each of the 5 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Port, Nene outfall, canal PORT, NENE OUTFALL, CANAL The original combined outfall of the Ouse and Nene, by … had been reduced. 52 By the end of the 19th century the canal had become unremunerative owing to the competition of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… markedly, and it is below the proportion of such towns as Oxford (68 per cent.) and Worcester (59 per cent.). 72 See p. … ( County Town, by Janet Glaisyer and others, 1946) and Oxford ( Oxford Replanned, by T. Sharp, 1948). The proportions for …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in 1073, 68 and which later passed to Magdalen College, Oxford. 69 The living was said to be worth less than 12 marks …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… here and there, have a pleasing effect. The Chesterfield canal, which takes a winding course of two miles, through … from Bawtry to Gainsborough, goes over the Chesterfield canal, in the course of which you have some pleasing …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… line of a Saxon road. 12 It crosses both the Sence and the canal by bridges known as Wain Bridge; that over the Sence … and continues as a track towards Wistow; it crosses the canal by Newton Bridge and the Sence by an un-named bridge. The canal is also crossed in the east of the parish by High …