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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with Lynesack, in the county of Durham.See Lynesack. Soham (St. Andrew) SOHAM ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union … is a pleasure-fair. The powers of the county debt-court of Soham, established in 1847, extend over the parishes of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Soham SOHAM The parish of Soham, 51 with its 5,260 ha. (12,999 a.) 52 the largest in … part of the county, at its north-eastern angle. 53 Soham village stands five miles (8 km.) south-east of Ely and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Soham Charities for the poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR. Soham had several substantial benefactions by the 17th … £8 every four years, in £2 instalments, half to repair Soham church, half for highways there. A comb of wheat was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Soham Churches CHURCHES. In the 11th century it was believed … bishop of the East Angles (d. c. 647), had founded at Soham, probably then within their kingdom, a monastery to … Danes. 39 Felix's supposed relics, however, remained at Soham, perhaps enshrined in a late Saxon minster church …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Soham Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Manors: demesnes and tenants. By 1086 the eleven hides in Soham, all but 1½ part of the king's manor, were worked by … Alan's had been halved since he received it. As later Soham had numerous smallholders, many presumably supported …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Soham Education EDUCATION. No record survives of schooling at Soham before 1660. 3 The award which divided Soham's fens in 1665-6 devoted to assisting its poor the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Soham Local government and public services LOCAL GOVERNMENT … for several manors, including the former Duchy manor of Soham and Fordham, for which court books survive for … the 'certificated' poor, presumably those thus returned to Soham, were repeatedly forbidden to feed cattle, and from …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Soham Manors MANORS. In 1086 the largest manor in Soham was that comprising 9½ hides, which before 1066 had … formally confirmed in hereditary possession of the king's Soham manor, to be held as one knight's fee. 83 Although …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Soham Nonconformity NONCONFORMITY. Late in 1660 a Soham man approached several craftsmen there, when seeking to … soon informed on. 37 Protestant dissenters were active at Soham from the 1660s, when some people refused to come to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… (A 10) is crossed by that from Earith and Chatteris to Soham and Newmarket (A 1123 and B 1085). The 'street' from … village to aline with the now less important Earith-Soham road. D. & S. Lysons, Magna Brit. ii (1), 41. 'Stretham …