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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and Leoflede, on the admission of their son Aelfwin as a monk, gave the vill to the monastery of Ely. 54 In 1086 … not of the liberty of Ely, which entered or left the port. The demesnes amounted to 1,137 acres. The four … of £13,550 10 s., including £2,980 mercantile stock in the port and the proceeds of the customs and excise. After 1792 …
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 … by cutting Moreton's Leam. Bishop West spent £200 on a new sluice, which was broken by a sea flood in or before …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Wisbech as a commercial centre WISBECH AS A COMMERCIAL CENTRE Wisbech is … to levy 4 d. toll on foreign ships entering or leaving the port. Since the blocking of the Well Stream, however, the only step taken towards the improvement of the port was the straightening of the course of the Nene by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and there seems no doubt that by the 1270s Witney was a town in the fullest sense, notwithstanding its limited … evidence suggests continued prosperity within the town as a whole, however, and certainly an assertion that it ceased to be 'a centre of trade' and that the borough 'hardly deserves its …
A History of the County of Oxford
… some 10 miles (16 km.) west of Oxford, originated as a planned medieval market town and borough, laid out by a … route to Oxford presumably by 1005 when it was called the 'port street', may also have formerly connected with the … End, leading to Crawley, Hailey, and Charlbury, was called Port way by the 15th century, suggesting an important route …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wiveliscombe (St. Andrew) WIVELISCOMBE ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. … the Saxon Willi or Vili, signifying "many," and Combe, "a deep ravine" or "dell." The town occupies a gentle … on the Colne river, and much shipping belongs to the port: it has a regular custom-house establishment, with a …
A History of the County of Essex
… from 6 to 20 which might suggest incipient urban or port development, but between 1086 and 1327 Wivenhoe … in Lexden hundred, 20 reflecting Wivenhoe's growth as a port whose develop- ment was linked with the expanding …
A History of the County of Essex
… Colne where it widens to form an estuary, covered 1,549 a. (627 ha.). 85 Its port in the south-west corner of the parish, which served … Rivers Authority, became operational in 1993. 7 Wivenhoe port was an important part of Colchester port from the 16th …
A History of the County of Essex
… courts with view of frankpledge were held at least once a year, with usually 12 to 16 jurors. Cases of animals … when those estates were treated as separate manors. 41 A court leet continued to meet once a year during the 16th and 17th centuries; the number of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wolviston Wollaston (St. Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. … time of the Norman survey, William, Count D'Eu, who, after a judicial combat at Salisbury, was executed for high … is fixed; and about four miles further to the east is Port-Clarence, where is the terminus of the Clarence railway. …