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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the firm silt land at the north-east end, just behind the 'Roman Bank'. The alterations made under the county Review …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… (later the Nene) outfall, a village site protected by the 'Roman Bank', and a landward extension into the fen-was … and allotting of 339 acres of marsh land, between the Roman Bank and the Nene outfall, to the owners of commonable …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… about 4 miles north of Wisbech, lying just west of the 'Roman Bank'. The parish, which in 1934 was increased by 551 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of Upwell on the road to Ely, was an inhabited site in Roman times, but in its present form is mainly a modern …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… near Wisbech, whose nuclei are on sites just behind the 'Roman Bank', are quite differently constituted, with narrow …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Gitt Field; Shoffendyke or Shoddyk Field. 12 East of the Roman Bank are High Marsh and Low Marsh, representing the … east side of the old Sea Bank (now popularly known as the Roman Bank) possess natural drainage and did not in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the parish boundary stops more than a mile short of the 'Roman Bank' which bounds all the other marshland parishes of … in 1851 as a 'neat' building, dated from 1843, 72 A Roman Catholic congregation existed at Thorney Toll from …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the reign of Elizabeth the castle was used as a prison for Roman Catholic recusants (see below), after which it again …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to three-mile intervals along the landward side of the 'Roman Bank' 1 which runs around the edge of the Wash from … the sites of the stalls and booths of this market. The 'Roman Bank' and the two streams meeting at Wisbech have … builder may have been responsible. 53 Definitely not Roman; probably early medieval in date ( V.C.H. Hunts, iii, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… castle RECUSANTS IN THE CASTLE The idea of concentrating Roman Catholic prisoners from various jails into one place … theological debates, and a place of pilgrimage for Roman Catholic laity. 53 In 1590 allegations of slackness … Bagshaw, a comparatively recent (1582) convert to Roman Catholicism. Weston began to be active about 1593, he …