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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… part of the main road from Wisbech to Outwell, Downham Market, and Ely (A 1101). The Low Road (B 1101) forms the … on silt soil, is largely given over to orchards and market-gardens; in the southwest, on the peat, farms are …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… large part of the land is devoted to fruit, potatoes, and market-gardening, as in all the northern parishes of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 3 miles east of Upwell and Outwell. As befits a former market-town, 3 Upwell is something of a road centre. There is the main road from Wisbech to Downham Market (A 1122) following the canal; the Wisbech-Ely road (A … than two months. 7 The district was already known for its market-gardens in the 1830's some time before they became …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Thorney is on peat and not on silt fen, the orchards and market gardens which are such a feature of the Wisbech area … 8 Francis, 4th Earl of Bedford, was granted the right to a market and two fairs at Thorney in 1634, 9 a privilege which … was renewed to Wriothesley, 2nd Duke, in 1716. 10 The market was discontinued in 1830, but the fairs, for horses …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… soil is highly fertile and much given over to orchards and market gardens. As in most Marshland parishes, as opposed to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… A large section of the parish falls within the Wisbech market-gardening area, and near Hiptoft Farm east of Murrow …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… a quarter and a third of the traffic being on Saturday (market day) (Oldham, MS. Hist. Wisb. River, 180 (Wisb. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… for apprenticing and £50 for making a road from the Corn Market to the little sluice. £10 was spent on the former … She also left £100 for the rebuilding or repair of the market cross, which was accomplished in 1614 (see above, p. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… building of the custom house, corn exchange, and cattle market severely taxed the resources of the Corporation. In … of 1814 were on a grand scale. 'The coup d'oeil of the Market Place presented a most beautiful spectacle', and about …