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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Chesterton Churches CHURCHES The patronage of the parish church at first belonged with the manor to the king, … Vercelli (Italy), to which the pope confirmed it in 1224, and to which the church had probably been appropriated by … in 1335. 6One chaplain, Geoffrey Andrews, of a prominent village family, although defamed in 1353 for misconduct with …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Conquest rendered a food farm, including wheat, malt, and honey, which by 1086 had been commuted for £13 8 s. 4 d., … fields, stretching northwest from the road through the village, which were called by the 1250s the East, Middle, and … lay along the eastern and north-western edges of the parish. To the east was Chesterton fen, recorded by 1300 as …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… John Reed, licensed in 1599, was still teaching in 1619, and there was usually another master as well 1600- 20, one in … appointed served until his death in 1757. 94In 1776 the parish advertised for a master for its charity children; … he who then opened a school teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic. 96A woman who died aged 90 in 1813 had once …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Chesterton Introduction Chesterton THE ancient parish of Chesterton, immediately north-east of Cambridge, 1 … Huntingdon way, 6 the road was a turnpike be- tween 1745 and 1874. 7 The north-west boundary with Milton was nearly … urns from an Iron Age burial ground north-east of the village, 20 where also were traces of early Anglo-Saxon …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… which an appellee escaped c. 1260, when a thief was hanged and accomplices abjured the realm in the prior's court. 79 … prison was at the priory's manor house, where in 1287 a village constable placed a local man arrested for stealing. … courts for that manor in the early 19th century. 18 The parish highway surveyors were mentioned in 1585. 19 In 1634 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Chesterton Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES Chesterton was … already in 1909 sold Manor farm, 363 a. north-west of the village, 40 to the county council, which sold off 56 a. to … Wragg estate, the largest in Chesterton after 1800. Thomas Parish, who succeeded his father and namesake in 1541, 99 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… buying in 1775 the later Roebuck House beside the ferry, and occupying a 170-a. farm. Although he preached locally and … flourished later, both in the new suburb and in the village. In 1842 the Baptists built a substantial chapel in … a new one off Arbury Road, which seated 290, serving both village and suburb. It had resident ministers from the 1940s …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… CHETNOLE (D.c.) (O.S. 6 in. XXI, N.E.) Chetnole is a small parish and village 6 m. S.S.W. of Sherborne. Ecclesiastical (1) Parish …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 5 CHETTLE (9513) (O.S., 6 ins. ST 91 SE, ST 91 SW) This parish, roughly quadrilateral on plan and with an area of 1, 124 acres, lies at the head of the dry … which lower down is drained by the Crichel Brook. The village stands in the bottom of the valley and formerly was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Ancient and historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Chetwode 121. CHETWODE. Chetwode, Church of St Mary and St Nicholas. (O.S. 6 in. (a)xvii. N.E. (b)xviii. N.W.) Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Nicholas, stands about 4 …