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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Mary) SUTTON-BASSET ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Market-Harborough, hundred of Corby, N. division of the … Sutton-Cheney SUTTON-CHENEY, a chapelry, in the parish of Market-Bosworth, hundred of Sparkenhoe, S. division of the county of Leicester, 2 miles (S. S. E.) from Market-Bosworth; containing 352 inhabitants. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Lichfield. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. Swaffham (St. Peter and St. Paul) SWAFFHAM ( St. Peter and St. Paul), a markettown, a parish, … theatre has been erected; an elegant assembly-room, on the market-hill, has been repaired and modernised, at a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… Swaffham Bulbeck 8 SWAFFHAM BULBECK (O.S. 6 ins. aTL 55 N.E., bTL 56 N.W., cTL … shillings in 1495 (W. M. Palmer, 'Benedictine Nunnery of Swaffham Bulbeck', C.A.S. Procs. XXXI (1931), 53) for the … stonework. The benches are noteworthy fittings. Fig. 85 Swaffham Bulbeck, Village Map Architectural DescriptionThe …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Swaffham Bulbeck SWAFFHAM BULBECK The parish of Swaffham Bulbeck, some seven miles (10 km.) north-east of … heathland were called in the 1570s Woodway, Nuns way, and Market way, recorded as Newmarket way c. 1350. 92 They ran …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Swaffham Bulbeck Charities for the poor CHARITIES FOR THE … to relieve of taxes all poor inhabitants of Bottisham and Swaffham Bulbeck, but excluding those possessing the … money for poor householders 'chargeable with children' in Swaffham Bulbeck and four neighbouring parishes and ordered …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Swaffham Bulbeck Church CHURCH. In the 12th century the … shortly before c. 1200, to endow the newly founded Swaffham priory. 7 It was appropriated to that nunnery by … About 1740 the Bottisham sequestrator also served Swaffham. 82 About 1770 White saw the parish only during …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Swaffham Bulbeck Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. In 1086, … Hall 90 a. out of c. 210 a. of tenanted land, partly in Swaffham Prior. The prioress had no land held by villeins, … both to Newcastle and through Rotterdam for the German market. The bulkiest import was coal from the Tyne, but salt, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Swaffham Bulbeck Education EDUCATION. Four schoolmasters, one …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Swaffham Bulbeck Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. In 1299 … earl risked losing it. The Veres' title to a court leet at Swaffham was eventually recognized by the Crown in 1307. 78 … Hall court, 81 although c. 1430 one affecting the whole of Swaffham fen was made jointly by the lords and all the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Swaffham Bulbeck Manors MANORS. In the late 10th century … of Ealdorman Aethelwine of East Anglia, gave an estate at Swaffham acquired by exchange from one Aethelwold to the new … After Aelfwold died, Aelfnoth son of Goding claimed the Swaffham land. In a plea at Wandlebury Aethelwine's support …