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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Chetwynd (St. Michael) CHETWYND ( St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Newport, Newport division of the … inhabitants. It is on the road from Birmingham to Chester, and comprises 3738 a. 32 p., of which 122 acres are waste: a … the year 1775. A chapel of ease has been built in the village of Sambrook. There is a small place of worship for …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… CHEVELEY Cheveley occupies a slice of chalk downland and clay-capped hills stretching south-east from Newmarket … from the Cheveley Park estate of all the heath in the parish, comprising 345 a. in 1838. 60 The Jockey Club bought … lower gradients of which provided sites for the church and village, the 14th-century moated castle, and the park of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… HUNDRED. The hundred lies south-east of Newmarket (Suff.), and stretches between the Icknield way on the north-west and a ridge of boulder clay in the south-east. Its eastern … runs along the Old Suffolk Road between Bury St. Edmunds and Dalham (Suff.), and its southwestern boundary partly …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Charities for the poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR. Houses and land were left for the poor of Cheveley under the wills of William Reeve and John Raye, dated 1553 and 1558 respectively. By 1837 the … in coal or cash among the settled poor not on permanent parish relief, according to the number of children in their …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… so. The Crown presented in 1296 as guardian of the heir and in 1576 by lapse. 96 John Martin presented in 1623 when … the suburban Cheveley Park housing estate from Cheveley parish to Newmarket All Saints was approved in 1945 against … (rector from 1623) fell foul of political opponents and village gossip and was sequestered in 1644, whereupon he …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… divided into arable land in the Chalk valley north of the village, pasture closes and woods with a little arable on the clay around the village … 1450s, 83 and High field at the southeast corner of the parish was partly arable in 1588, 84 but most of the land …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… under the will of John Raye, proved 1560, who left a house and land to support it. 58 The endowment, sold to buy 50 a. … subjects, 69 but in fact there was no demand in the village for such accomplishments and the school closed in … an elementary school, then a primary school, serving the parish, 78 and from 1978 was the central school of a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Courts for Cheveley manor were being held by 1260 84 and Sibyl Loveday claimed view of frankpledge in 1299. 85 Her successors also had the assize of bread and of ale. Court rolls survive for 1422 and 1442-59. 86 When … his death they were taken over by the vestry and used as a parish poorhouse until 1835, when the Poor Law Amendment Act …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Cheveley Manors and estate MANORS AND ESTATE. The parish included two manors, Cheveley itself (the core of the … 750 m. north-west of the church and well away from the village. The building stood on a rectangular platform 45 m. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of the manor c. 1672-1708, was a prominent Roman Catholic and the eight or ten papists reported in 1676 were presumably … for Primitive Methodists, who had a 'chapel' in 1850 and held annual camp meetings on Broad green until 1862 or … farm a small Baptist chapel was built on the site in 1869, and by 1871 there were 24 members and a large congregation. …