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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Chapeiry of Parson Drove CHAPELRY OF PARSON DROVE Parson Drove, … and its neighbourhood were transferred from Holland to the Isle and added to Parson Drove in 1934. 3 The added area is … of the parish; it had formed a projecting salient into the Isle between Parson Drove and Thorney, and had been counted …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… on the Norfolk border between Wisbech and Outwell, is one of the larger parishes in the Isle. It was originally of the long, narrow shape usually … largely to making Elm one of the prettiest villages in the Isle. The 'needle' spire of the church recalls the southern …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Leverington is a large parish and village on the northwest of Wisbech. 1 The lay-out-a frontage upon the Ouse (later the … the same as in the other Marshland villages of the Isle, but in Leverington has been considerably modified. In … the surveys of 1221 and 1251 as some of the others in the Isle. At the earlier date there were 5 free tenants, 64 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Newton NEWTON Newton is a village about 4 miles north of Wisbech, lying just west of the 'Roman Bank'. The parish, … of the elongated shape usual in the marshland areas of the Isle and Holland, stretching from the light silt soils by the … of about 6 square miles it is smaller than the majority of Isle parishes. Until 1934 the old course of the Well Stream …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Each is therefore partly in Norfolk and partly in the Isle of Ely. 1 In the Middle Ages they were collectively known as … general in Marshland. 8 As elsewhere in the north of the Isle, inclosure mostly took place gradually as the land was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Thorney THORNEY This large parish 1 is of a different type from the others in Wisbech hundred. Its … area of pasture. 3 Thorney is the only village in the Isle to have been for a long period the sole property of an … of good domestic architecture than most villages in the Isle. The following houses, besides those above-mentioned, …
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 … 2 The neighbouring parish on the south is Newton-in-the-Isle. The most important watercourse in the parish, after the … 1291. 52 At the last date it was one of the richest in the Isle. In 1535, however, the value was only £21 13 s. 53 The …
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 … Bank' which bounds all the other marshland parishes of the Isle. The tradition that St. Mary's church was the mother …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… for his house 'pulled down for the preservation of the rest'. 57 After this it was resolved that the town's fire equipment should consist of 24 leather buckets, 3 large ladders, and 3 'cromes' with … were destroyed. A general collection throughout the Isle yielded £14 0 s. 10 d., including £4 16 s. 5 d. from …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Guild of the holy trinity GUILD OF THE HOLY TRINITY The Guild of the Holy Trinity was much … with that of some of the most valuable manors in the Isle, such as Doddington, Sutton, and Whittlesey St. Andrew. …