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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Dry Drayton Church CHURCH The patronage of Dry Drayton church remained with Crowland abbey until the … in the early 1560s, when there were no sermons. 94 Dry Drayton had two chantries. Agatha of Stanton, who was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Dry Drayton Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY Of 17½ploughlands … there in the 1870s causing some depopulation in Dry Drayton, 49where the number regularly employed on the farms … the traditional Cambridgeshire breed in the 1810s, 58Dry Drayton remained predominantly arable. In 1840 the Smith …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Dry Drayton Education EDUCATION Schoolmasters, initially licensed … 13. Nat. Soc. Inquiry, 1846-7, Cambs. 4-5. Walker, Dry Drayton, i. 79, and facing pp. 1-2; C.R.O., P 58/25/12; … HO 107/1759; ibid. RG9/1018; RG 10/1579. Walker, Dry Drayton, i. 74; P.R.O., ED 7/5; cf. above, plate facing p. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Dry Drayton Introduction DRY DRAYTON Dry Drayton, 54 which formerly contained 2,421 a., 55 lies 8 km. … parish. 58 Although the village was probably named Dry Drayton to distinguish it from Fen Drayton 8 km. to the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Dry Drayton Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT About 1250 Peter of … while labourers were apportioned among the farmers. 25 Dry Drayton was included in the Chesterton poor-law union in 1836, 26 and the workhouse was shortly sold. 27 Dry Drayton belonged to Chesterton R.D. from the 1890s 28 and to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Dry Drayton Manors MANORS Perhaps from its foundation, 53 Crowland abbey possessed an estate at Dry Drayton, assessed in 1086 at 7½ hides, 54which remained a … 61 with whom she obtained in 1603 a release of Dry Drayton from John Hutton's nephew and heir male Roger Hutton, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Dry Drayton Nonconformity NONCONFORMITY Some villagers were in … in 1960. 78 The Primitive Methodists, preaching at Dry Drayton from the 1820s, 79 opened a chapel there in the … a hut at Childerley Gate at the south-west corner of Dry Drayton, was opened by 1899 and closed by 1980. 83 A …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Ragenhill, Wymenton, Derlington, and Swarnesterne in Drayton, Marcham, Greenleige, Ordsall, Grave, Hedume, Uptone, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 6 inhabitants. It lies about a mile to the north of Drayton-Manor, the seat of Sir Robert Peel, Bart., and is one …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Hervey de Stafford was lord of a knight's fee in DUNSTON, Drayton, and Water Eaton by 1236, 69 while by 1243 Robert de Stafford was lord of half a small fee in Dunston and Drayton, in addition to the 1 small fee in Stretton and … at Swanford, apparently the boundary between Dunston and Drayton, downstream to Acton Bridge, were leased and …