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A History of the County of Northampton
… 40 by the union of two previously separate parishes, Wick (or Wyke) Dive and Wick Hamon, which were already distinct … exposed. 47 Baker described the soil as a cold white clay, or in some parts a brown stone brash loam, overlying … appeal for increased subscriptions, threatening a school board if these were not forthcoming, but at the same time …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… at the top. At the end of the N.E. wing is a late 16th or early 17th-century projecting chimney-stack with three … The Barn, S. of the house, is probably of the 17th century or earlier date; it is timber-framed and weather-boarded; the … and covered with plaster; the roofs are tiled or thatched. They are generally of two storeys, and have …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… well-behaved, Anglican widows and widowers, aged over 60 or disabled. From any surplus income after maintenance costs, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… No tithes were customarily taken directly of calves, milk, or sedge, nor from the Spinney sheepflock, nor from the … permitted it to serve Wicken church either by a monk or a suitable secular chaplain. 99 One such chaplain died in … to 1813 and the curate of Kennett from 1817. Those hard-pressed clergy could only provide one service each Sunday, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… being granted for terms ranging from 37 years up to ten or twenty. 72 No customary holdings were as yet permanently … of the river, called in the mid 17th century mowing fens or Lammas grounds, were still in the early 19th mown by their … Fen', p. 74. For turf digging practices and the turf trade, A. Day, Wicken: Turf Village (1985); G. Lohoar and S. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… obliged in 1876, as teachers' pay rose, to accept a school board, to which he leased the school buildings. In 1897 the … to a house. In 1879 the new Swaffham Prior school board opened a school, initially with only 12 pupils, under a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of carved stonework from the priory, 14th-century or earlier, including sections of quatrefoil piers, capitals, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… trefoiled lights. The Roof of the chancel is of late 15th or early 16th-century date and flat-pitched; it is of two … ceiling-beams and original chimney-stacks. ConditionGood or fairly good. a(3). House, now three tenements, on N.W. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Gosport, and comprises 2433 acres, of which 187 are common or waste land. Courts leet and baron are held annually; and a … has been erected here: the union comprises forty parishes or places, and contains a population of 21,051. Mr. John … a tunnel threequarters of a mile in length. The clothing-trade was formerly carried on to a considerable extent. The …