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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Winterbourne WINTERBOURNE, a chapelry, in the parish of Chieveley, union of Newbury, hundred of … containing 337 inhabitants, and comprising 2084 a. 26 p. The chapel is dedicated to St. James. The impropriate tithes … net income, 157; patron, the Earl of Ilchester. An alien priory subordinate to the priory of West, or de Vasto, of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Elm ELM Elm, on the Norfolk border between Wisbech and Outwell, is one of the larger parishes in the Isle. It was originally of the … as a farm-house. 79 Lands in Elm were given to Nuneaton Priory (Warws.) by Robert, Earl of Leicester, about 1154. 80 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Upwell OUTWELL AND UPWELL These two villages lie astride the Well Stream. Each is therefore partly in Norfolk and partly in the Isle of Ely. 1 In the Middle Ages they were collectively … landowners' in either Outwell or Upwell. The cathedral priory retained certain rights in the vills after 1109. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… THORNEY This large parish 1 is of a different type from the others in Wisbech hundred. Its nucleus is an island of gravel, not very perceptible except from the west, but rising to 25 ft. above sea-level, or some 15 to … abbey are very scanty. The boundary with the Ely Cathedral priory property in Wisbech Murrow was adjusted in 1248. The …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech St. Mary WISBECH ST. MARY Wisbech St. Mary, one of the larger parishes of the Isle, covers an area of some 10,000 acres 1 on the left … 44 In 1275, when Wisbech rectory was appropriated to Ely priory, a house for the priest at Kilhus is mentioned as …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Fees FEES In 1221 the tenants by military service were as follows: William de Longchamp held 80 acres as 1 fee, with a messuage in the New Market belonging thereto, and also 240 acres at a … and Clement Robertes of Little Braxted (Essex). 11 The priory of Spinney held 40 acres in Wisbech Fen, worth 10 s. …
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 and 1½ miles wide at its widest point. The ancient parish comprised 2,842 a. Buncton chapelry, a … tithes of Buddington, which had been granted to Sele priory in 1073, 68 and which later passed to Magdalen …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Wigston, Wiston WIGSTON, WISTON. In Wiseton of the kings Soc of Oswaldebek belonging to Maunsfeild also, was one car. for the geld. 1 The land two car. seven sochm. seven vill. four … the daughters and heirs of the said John de Markham. 7 The priory of Mattersey 20 E: 4, had lands in Wyeston by …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Witcham (St. Martin) WITCHAM ( St. Martin), a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 5 miles (W.) from Ely, on the road to Chatteris; containing 502 inhabitants. The living … one time a magnificent building, probably the church of a priory which existed here in the reign of John, a cell to the …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… Meathop and Ulpha WITHERSLACK, MEATHOP AND ULPHA. The mesne manor of Meathop and Ulpha with land at … Crackenthorpe in Beetham was an early feoffment by one of the lords of Beetham in the twelfth century. Henry de Bethum … be inserted in the "martilogium" [martyrologium] 6 of the priory and to be received into all the benefits of the house. …