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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… area comprised by south-east Holland and Norfolk west of the Ouse. It is situated on the Nene about 12 miles from … the far end of Wisbech High Fen beyond Guyhirn, where the boundary marched with Whittlesey for a short distance. From … by the North and South Wards which lasted until the boundary alterations of the 1930's. 5 By the Ministry of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… occurs c. 1000, when Oswy and Leoflede, on the admission of their son Aelfwin as a monk, gave the vill to the monastery of Ely. 54 In 1086 Wisbech was held by the abbot, and rated … mentioning the river going to Elm and to Wisbech as the boundary of the Peterborough abbey lands, is doubtful. V.C.H. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… PORT, NENE OUTFALL, CANAL The original combined outfall of the Ouse and Nene, by Wisbech, had been diverted along … diverted back again soon afterwards by the blocking of the Creek. 3 No attempt seems to have been made to reopen … still shown on many maps, since until 1934 it formed the boundary between the Isle of Ely and Norfolk. Walker and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… SCHOOLS A reference in the Archdeacon's Visitation Book of 1581-3 69 to a certain Mr. Belson of Wisbech St. Peter, … and Gorefield as well as Wisbech itself. 94 The county boundary of the Isle and Norfolk, based on the old course of … schools were brought into Wisbech Borough under the 1934 boundary changes. Kirkgate Street School, Walsoken, 96 was …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Wiston WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south … north-east to the river Adur. 99 Part of the south-east boundary is formed by an old track; 1 the other boundaries of … outline is much indented. Chanctonbury Ring straddles the boundary with Washington in the south-west part; 2 it was …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… Wistow WISTOW Wistow lies seven miles south-east of Leicester in the valley of the River Sence. Since 1936 it … Sence, and the river and its tributaries form the parish boundary on the north and east. The land rises from about 300 … of the parish. Field boundaries and tracks mark the parish boundary on the south and west. The soil is mainly a loamy …
A History of the County of Oxford
… borough Introduction WITNEY BOROUGH Introduction The town of Witney, 1 by the river Windrush some 10 miles (16 km.) … eastern branch formed the town's and parish's eastern boundary until the 20th century, and the western branch, … fortified Iron Age site at Newland just over the parish boundary, 10 and a small 2nd-century Roman settlement east of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured wide-ranging liberties within their … meeting in 1897 to discuss the controversial borough boundary extension was said to have been poorly attended. 94 … sewerage (54), and rents and general costs (85). 126 The boundary extension of 1898, as originally envisaged, would …
A History of the County of Oxford
… AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a church within the 10th- and 11th-century estate seems … likely, the earliest unequivocal evidence is the survival of blocked, single-splayed windows of late 11th- or early … from the parish church's location just outside the borough boundary within Curbridge township. 5 Chapels of ease were …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of Kingsbury, W. division of Somerset, 28 … which it is separated by the river Learn, at its eastern boundary. The Oxford canal passes through it. The living is a …