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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wincanton - Windy Nook Wincanton (St. Peter and St. Paul) WINCANTON ( St. Peter and St. Paul), a market-town and parish, and the head of a … in the other, those of their third son, George, Duke of Bedford: the remains of both were reinterred in the same tomb …
Survey of London
… to its present site at the corner of Cleveland Street and Mortimer Street. St. Pancras Female Charity School was … show that nearly all the houses on both the north and south sides of the street were occupied by the year 1770. … A new meeting house was built for him in Keppel Street (Bedford Square) in 1795. There was a large secession from him …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… The romantic legends told by Froissart of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor lack the … early history of Windsor which were current in the 14th and 15th centuries. 1 During the Saxon period, when Edward … in the castle under the care of his uncle the Duke of Bedford. An inventory of the king's property taken on his …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is nearly in the centre of the peninsula of Holderness, and consists of about 2000 acres. Two-thirds are arable, and one-third under grass, among the latter of which are … Chalgrave, union of Woburn, hundred of Manshead, county of Bedford; containing 160 inhabitants. Wingfield (St. Andrew) …
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 … along Leverington Common towards Parson Drove. The Bedford Level Act of 1663 4 authorized the inclosure, …
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. … of the old Nene into the Ouse at Salter's Lode; the Old Bedford River (part of the south-east boundary of Upwell), …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… differently constituted, with narrow frontages to the Bank and long extensions into the fen. Since, moreover, Thorney is on peat and not on silt fen, the orchards and market gardens which … resident landlord (the successive earls and dukes of Bedford), and the conspicuously neat aspect of the planned …
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 … II. They were 'improved, set out and divided' under the Bedford Level Act of 1663. 13 The land was allotted to the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… when Wisbech vill was divided between the Bishop of Ely and the prior and convent. That this separation had not taken place in … receiving relief. A further 8 acres were awarded under the Bedford Level Act of 1677, and the total yearly rents derived …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Borough of Wisbech Azure represntations of St. Peter and St. Paul or standing within a double canopy or. (Granted … The burgesses were given the right of perpetual succession and the use of a common seal. 47 They were to hold the guild … Sutton Marsh (1719) and in Thorney Fen and the Bedford level generally (1749 and 1775-6). 67 Their efforts …