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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in 1878, as a vehicle for maintaining a school at Upware shared with Wicken parish. It was opened in 1879 72 … before 1900 seldom exceeded 25. 73 From 1958 the Upware school's older pupils went to Soham village college …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… mid 1990s. 54 In 1836 the Wesleyan Methodists built near Upware, close to the river, a brick 'fen chapel', apparently …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… south-west corner stands the small and isolated hamlet of Upware, at a site possibly so named from the 10th century. 21 … along the western side is covered with a block of Upware limestone. In the far north, and in the surviving … existed outside the village from the Middle Ages. Upware, so named presumably from a fishing weir on the river, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… farm. 87 In 1839, although the tenant of the Tithe farm at Upware had recently collected most tithes in kind, the … held winter cottage lectures for the distant hamlet of Upware, where a wooden mission hall was erected in 1883. 31 A …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… common. 95 Some early inclosures were probably made near Upware in Wicken's south-west corner. In 1240 the lord of … several meadow. 97 The 63 a. of several fen reported near Upware in 1636 were probably mostly part of the formerly manorial Upware farm, whose 132 a. included 114 a. of old inclosures …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… secondary education scholarships for former Wicken and Upware school-pupils. 95 In the late 20th century the old … pupils, under a Wicken woman in a newbuilt schoolroom at Upware, which also took children from cottages in Swaffham … Black, Cambs. Educ. Rec. 79; Newmarket Jnl. 17 Apr. 1975; Upware Field Studies Centre, brochures 1980-2 (copies in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… by 1770 covering c. 343 a. as High Fen farm, together with Upware farm. At inclosure in the 1840s Miss Hatch was also … sale that year, her kinsman William Hatch Cropley bought Upware farm, then 150 a., 84 which was broken up when again … Abbey estate, then including a 374-a. farm, along with Upware farm and 30 a. of open-field land, for sale. 22 …