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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and 21 September. The village is situated where the main road from Peterborough to Wisbech (A 47) is crossed by that … somewhat west of the centre of the parish. The former road is now one of the main cross-country routes of England … settlement, known generically as Wryde Croft, along the road leading north from the main Wisbech road towards Gedney …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the local topography. The parish is crossed by the main road from Wisbech to Long Sutton (A 1101) and the … are hamlets at Four Gotes and Tydd Gote, 3 where the high road enters and leaves the parish, and at Foul Anchor in the … Anglia, e.g. the Staithe in Wisbech (now called Staithe Road) on the old sea bank. Here, at Tydd, was the outlet to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of the parish, and smaller ones at Tholomas Drove on the road between St. Mary's and Guyhirn and at Thorney Toll on … Nene forms the southern boundary of the parish. The main road from Peterborough to Wisbech (A 47) crosses the fen in … and leaves the parish at its junction with the March road at Guyhirn Bridge. A second-class road (B 1441) keeps to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… its high camber and steep approaches, proved dangerous to road traffic, 63 and as early as 1819 an abortive proposal …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… baggage occurred between Walsoken and Wisbech, where the road from Lynn along the sea bank crossed the Well Stream. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… gave £150 in 1656 for apprenticing and £50 for making a road from the Corn Market to the little sluice. £10 was spent …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… outfall, 94 miles north of London and 40 from Cambridge by road. It is one of a series of settlements spaced at two- to … route to March, which leaves the main (South Brink) road to Peterborough 10 at Guyhirn, was turnpiked in 1730. 11 The road through Wisbech St. Mary to Thorney and Peterborough was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… side of the Market Place, to form a new approach to Lynn Road, was not carried out. This proposal was still under …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… under Wisbech St. Mary. The names are preserved in Barton Road and Farm, west of the town, and the hamlet of Murrow in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Dir. Cambs. (1933). The horse fairs were held in Lynn Road (infm. the late E. J. Rudsdale). Gardner, Dir. Cambs. …