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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… the S. it rises on the N. slopes of the S. Dorset Ridgeway and to the N. on to a level area bounded by the … the parish was little more than half its present size and was almost confined to the area S. of the river. The N. part of the parish was formerly in Fordington, and was transferred to Monkton when the rest of Fordington …
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 … king's books at 28, and in the gift of the Rev. T. F. R. Read, with a net income of 657: above 300 acres of land have …
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 … is endowed with 21 acres of land. Wisbech (St. Peter and St. Paul) WISBECH ( St. Peter and St. Paul), a sea-port, …
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 … Fen containing three riggs to buy books for any person to read that might come to church before the beginning of …
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 the Well Stream. Each is therefore partly in Norfolk and partly in the Isle of Ely. 1 In the Middle Ages they were …
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 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the main feature of Wisbech life in the later Middle Ages and was the direct ancestor of the Corporation. It is reputed … to translate the statutes into English, and in 1531 to read them out at the dinner on Trinity Sunday. He was also … his accounts and the ordinances of the guild were read out. 27 The first dinner on record, that of 1379, cost …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Poor relief and apprenticeship POOR RELIEF AND APPRENTICESHIP As in some other towns the relief of the … about 80. Children were admitted when 'big enough to read' and were taught to write and to spin. Raw wool was …