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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… parish in Cambridgeshire, is situated 6 miles north of Wisbech. The Shire Drain divides it on the north and west from the sister parish of Tydd St. Mary in Lincolnshire. This stream has shrunk to a shadow of its former self but is an important boundary, separating, …
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 (north-west) bank of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Bridges BRIDGES The first mention of the bridge over the Well Stream is in 1317, when in the settlement of a dispute between Bishop Hotham and Sir Geoffrey de Coleville over their manors of Wisbech and Walsoken, certain houses erected by the latter …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… first built by William the Conqueror after the submission of Hereward. 27 It may have been granted to the see of Ely at its formation, but the original headquarters of the episcopal estate in Wisbech, from which the manor …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Charities CHARITIES 68 The charities of Wisbech are very considerable, as is the case with most boroughs of ancient standing. The following date back beyond the middle of the 19th century; those of Elizabeth Wright, Abraham …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Charters of incorporation CHARTERS OF INCORPORATION Borough of Wisbech Azure represntations of St. Peter and St. Paul or …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to it. The vicar was to receive the tithes except those of flax and wool. Land and other tithes were assigned to him for conducting the services at the chapel of Kilhus in Wisbech St. Mary (q.v.). 58 In 1275 Bishop Balsham appropriated the church of Wisbech to the prior and convent of Ely, with the rectory …
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 its present outfall, 94 miles north of London and 40 from Cambridge by road. It is one of a series of settlements spaced at two- to three-mile …
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 … depended on whether it had been recently flooded. The results of the great marine flood of 1236, when hundreds of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… is held by prescription. In 1657 John Thurloe, as lord of the manor, was granted a fortnightly market at Wisbech by letters patent. 73 In the 1840's Wisbech was one of the largest if not actually the largest corn market in the … were sold, the quantity changing hands in each week of that period sometimes being as much as 9,000 quarters. 74 …