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A History of the County of Huntingdon
… REMAINS Note on a Romano-British Village near Somersham, Hunts. C. F. Tebbutt. ( Antiq. Journ. vi, 190.) Romano-British Village Sites in Colne and Somersham, Hunts. C. F. Tebbutt. ( Cambs and Hunts Arch. Soc. …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… parish. Early records show, however, that the parish, with Somersham Chace and Sapley Forest near by, was at one time … right to hunt deer freely 'throughout the whole forest of Somersham, to wit, as the highway passes from Huntingdon to …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Robert Redeswell, and he, in 1358, granted it to John de Somersham. 109 It afterwards passed, at the close of the …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… surface water, called 'sock' wells. On the west, near the Somersham road, is a chalybeate spring, where more than one … was made in the 18th century to establish a spa, called Somersham Spa. Its waters had a certain vogue, being … lie two small spinneys, which were no doubt part of Somersham Forest. The western end of the parish was part of …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… Some outlying portions of the parish have been added to Somersham and Bluntisham. 1 The village lies along the road from Bluntisham to Somersham, surrounded by fruit gardens. It suffered from a … was built in the village. There are railway stations at Somersham and Bluntisham, each about a mile from Colne …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… originally consisted of an allotment of about 15 acres on Somersham Heath in the parish, awarded in lieu of open field …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and in 1408 the Cottons conveyed the advowson to William Somersham, Henry Thomestone, and others, 214 perhaps for the benefit of Gonville Hall, of which Somersham was master by 1410 and Thomestone a fellow. 215 In …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… from which it slopes down to the low-lying ground about Somersham to the east. Old Hurst and Woodhurst no doubt from … manor he received an allotment of land at the inclosure of Somersham Heath in 1796, 37 and at the inclosure of Old Hurst … Burton, lord of the manor of Woodhurst from such part of Somersham Heath as had been allotted to Old Hurst at the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… by his three younger sons, on the branch of this family of Somersham, in Huntingdonshire. A court leet and court baron …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… cent. The parish of Pidley with Fenton lies to the west of Somersham and no doubt originally formed with it one large … if not the whole, of the parish was within the chace of Somersham and was open country until the inclosures made … lease and the reversion in fee of the manor and soke of Somersham. The village of Pidley stands on the top of a hill …