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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with Flasby, a township, in the parish of Gargrave, union of Skipton, E. division of the wapentake of Staincliffe … place, which is situated on the line of the Roman Ermin-street, was formerly of considerable importance; about half a … It comprises 3383 acres, of which 1800 are common or waste: the village is large, and the houses are well built …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… wall-posts and curved braces; the braces have foliated or traceried spandrels. The early 16th-century pent-roof of … the roofs are variously covered with thatch, tiles, slates or corrugated iron. Some of the buildings have original …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wisbech (St. Mary) WISBECH ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of … land in nearly equal portions; 186 acres are common or waste. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Wisbech … borough, market-town, and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and Ely (A 1101). The Low Road (B 1101) forms the village street and continues in a zigzag course through Friday Bridge … at Elm who held by military service. Richard de Argentem or Argentan held 1 fee; Roger Mareis and Robert de Banstede ( … him as holding, inter alia, a messuage called Bealford or BEAUFORD, together with 776 acres and 7 marks rent. Of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the Nene outfall, to the owners of commonable messuages or tenements in Leverington. Each allotment appears to have … Field, Outnewlands, Fen Croft, Church Croft, Paps Field or Hill Croft, Seafield, Ives Dyke Field or Doole, Park Field, Woolcroft or Walcroft, Wratfield, and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… alternative route from Wisbech to Spalding-forms the main street of the village, and there are several minor roads. The … from all claims of the Bishop of Ely and the inhabitants or others claiming under them. The remaining part of the … near the corner formed by High Green or the Newton High Street, and Mill Lane. The predecessor of the present house …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… In the Middle Ages they were collectively known as 'Welle' or 'Welles', and today they are absolutely continuous, so … south-west of Upwell church and on the east side of the street, dates from the early 18th century but has been much … thatched. A stone-walled house on the west side of the street, just north of Lloyds Bank, has a blocked doorway with …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… from the west, but rising to 25 ft. above sea-level, or some 15 to 20 ft. above the surrounding fen. Reclamation … Ages what is now the parish of THORNEY was of little or no account except as the site and home farm or demesne of the abbey, 30 and references to it apart from …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 'staith', meaning such parts of the banks of a watercourse or sea beach as were used for a regular landing-place for men or goods. Staithes were quite common in East Anglia, e.g. the … Here, at Tydd, was the outlet to the sea of the old Nene or Sluice Drain or Elloe River-the last of which alternatives …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of Wisbech was reserved to the latter. This half was more or less co-extensive with the present parish of Wisbech St. … manor remained continuously with the prior and convent or their successors the dean and chapter, but documentary … 19 acres in Sayers Field, on the north side of the village street of St. Mary's near the old Primitive Methodist chapel. …