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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… which has a station (Tydd) about 3 miles east of the village just outside the county boundary. The soil is highly … 'staith', meaning such parts of the banks of a watercourse or sea beach as were used for a regular landing-place for men or goods. Staithes were …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the fact that until the last century Wisbech St. Mary was for ecclesiastical purposes a chapelry of Wisbech (St. … area, and near Hiptoft Farm east of Murrow village is one of the largest areas of orchard, covering more … of Wisbech was reserved to the latter. This half was more or less co-extensive with the present parish of Wisbech St. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Epidemics, sanitation EPIDEMICS, SANITATION The origin of the weekly collection for the poor, mentioned above, seems to have been the … deaths, was not so severe as in some neighbouring villages or in the country at large. The 1849 cholera epidemic, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… six guilds in Wisbech. St. Peter's, dating from 1327, was the oldest, the remainder, with the possible exception of the … Trinity Guild allowed its hall to be hired by the others for payments ranging from 12 d. (St. Peter, St. Thomas, Our … to Francis Morrice and Francis Phellipps. 98 W. M. Palmer, Village Gilds of Cambs. 377-9 (printing the gild …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and only corporate town in the Isle, and the nodal point for the whole marshland area comprised by south-east Holland … and South Brink (Wisbech St. Peter) and Murrow or North Brink (Wisbech St. Mary). The fact that the three … it was diverted from its old course through Leverington village to its present one bisecting Spital Field. The repair …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… town ever since; the January and July sessions for the Isle are held here, those in April and October at … persons afflicted with palsy, rheumatism, gout, blindness, or any other complaint which might render them objects of … held on a course beside Elm Road, near the turning to Elm village. In 1775 there were four entries for a purse of £50, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Shippinge' and 'about the Towne business to get abatement for the shippmoney', though the results are not recorded. 71 … 'give us Wren, that damned Bishopp Ely, wee will have him or else fyer the town and cutt the throats of all the … Dom. 1644-5, 325-6; V.C.H. Cambs. ii, 407; Brit. Arch. Assoc. Proc. xxxv, 65; Corp. Rec. iv, 106 b, 112 b. Corp. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… that Wisbech was still only a large and slightly urbanized village. The growth of Wisbech was hampered by the seaflood … the power to levy 4 d. toll on foreign ships entering or leaving the port. Since the blocking of the Well Stream, … ( Oxford Replanned, by T. Sharp, 1948). The proportions for Cambridge, Lynn, and Peterborough were not worked out on …
A History of the County of Sussex
… too after their inclusion in Wiston. The original Wiston village lay 1¼ miles south-east of the present one, which is … estimated at 290 a. 13 Part of Solewick had been disparked for arable by the late 16th century, 14 perhaps including the … cover remained in 1978 in the wide strips of wood, or 'rews', which divided the fields. The home park on the …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… of Oswaldebek belonging to Maunsfeild also, was one car. for the geld. 1 The land two car. seven sochm. seven vill. … The seat of Jonathan Acklom, esq: was formerly the seat or mansion of the Nelthorp family. 8 Since, the old house has … object, Pustohill is another, a public-house, also in the village near, is built, in a romantic stile. Baua and Pusto …