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A History of the County of Essex
… portions of Copford and Stanway, and a detached part of West Bergholt being added to Fordham, and three small portions of Fordham being annexed to West Bergholt. All Saints' church, Eight Ash Green, built in … nave with north and south aisles, south porch, and west tower. The nave and chancel are built primarily of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… which provided extensive common pastures in the north-west of the parish to complement the open fields that … perhaps later, group with smaller fields developed west of the village. Three large fields, altogether c. 1,660 … for the whole field from the mid 17th century. 86 Further west, close to the north-western boundary, lay on relatively …
A History of the County of Essex
… east and south-east, Archentines manor was in the north-west but included a meadow beside Fiddlers wood in Aldham, 24 … perhaps the later Perry field which extended into West Bergholt. 34 Medieval field names included Netherwode- … was recorded. 57 There is evidence of hopgrowing: in 1569 west of Hammonds mill, in 1599, in 1643, on 1½ a. called the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… William Dunn Gardner (II) had given a site at the south-west corner of the village, north of the Burwell road, for a … one-storeyed, flat-roofed design, was built and opened west of the Isleham road, a little north of the crossroads. …
A History of the County of Essex
… FORDHAM THE ancient parish of Fordham six miles north-west of Colchester covered 2,520 a. (1,020 ha.). The main … parish. In 1883 two detached parts, 6 a. and 4 a., of West Bergholt were transferred to Fordham. 27 In 1889 two small detached parts bounded by West Bergholt and Lexden were transferred from Fordham to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was still considered in 1656 to comprise all the north-west of Fordham, not merely fields and commons, but most of … in 1892, others, along with a parish landing stage in West fen, 34 remained parish property in the late 20th …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Besides the land belonging to those two manors, the north-west of Fordham also contained from the 13th century much … the council also acquired 136 a. of vicarial glebe south-west of the village in 1910 and from the Dunn Gardners the … in 1912, besides buying Lark Hall farm, 186 a., to its west in 1919, and remained, until sales in the 1990s, one of …
A History of the County of Essex
… that wall paintings dated 1586 were discovered. The north-west wing was added after 1876. 5 By 1876 there was a large farmyard to the west, of which a granary, possibly 17th-century and incorporat- ing earlier timbers, survives to the south-west. 6 The manor of ARCHENTINES or ARCHENDINES seems to have …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of Mill Lane. Of grey brick, it has a plain three-bayed west front with round-headed windows above a gabled porch. … too small, the Wesleyans built, off Sharmans lane at the west end of the village, a chapel in Early English style, …
A History of the County of Essex
… sash windows, and gabled porch; inside there was a coved west gallery built in 1858. 10 A schoolroom was built. 11 A …