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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… is situated about 6½ miles west of Wisbech and 4½ miles south-west of Leverington. The network of roads is close, but … those of Murrow (East and West) are just outside on the south. Some of the houses of Murrow village are in Parson … BAPTIST consists of clerestoried nave, aisles, north and south porches and west tower. The chancel was destroyed by …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… dates from 1921. 2 The River Nene formerly crossed the south of the parish diagonally. After turning gradually … the village, and a long shelter belt running north and south along the March road at Coldham Hall, the site of a … property lay near Needham Hall in the east of the parish, south of Old Field. The property was settled on Edward …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Field, Old Eaufield, Elbow Field, Flain Field, North and South Inham, and Parson Drove Fen. MANORS Leverington is not … the west end of Gorefield, Catfield, Newfield, and South Inham. Little can be gathered as to its organization, … of the 19th century. LESSER ESTATES 58 The house at the south end of Church Lane, sometimes called CROSSE HALL but …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… on the northwest. The boundary with Leverington on the south is not so clearly defined, and the small hamlet of … of the newly inclosed marshlands. This land lay on the south side of the Little Ramper and abutted upon the … who added to the house the block of large rooms on the south side. Thomas Patrick of Lynn, who married into that …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Ouse at Salter's Lode; the Old Bedford River (part of the south-east boundary of Upwell), the main drainage channel, … Drain (a continuation of the Middle Level Main) from the south end of Upwell village; and another from Nordelph (B … last Prior and first Dean of Ely. 12 Welney, about 6 miles south of Upwell on the road to Ely, was an inhabited site in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… oblong area some 6 miles east to west by 4 miles north to south. The parishes near Wisbech, whose nuclei are on sites … towards Gedney Hill; also at Knarr Fen, along the droves south of the Wisbech road; and at Thorney Toll on the eastern … a pleasant two-storied oriel with gabled top, on the south side. The east front was altered in the 18th century, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… course of the River Nene. 2 The neighbouring parish on the south is Newton-in-the-Isle. The most important watercourse … to the Shire Drain, which cuts straight across from south-west to north-east and has considerably altered the … at Tydd St. Giles from 1320 for several generations. Its south gable at one time bore the date 1587, and the north end …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Marshland villages are more scattered than those farther south, Wisbech St. Mary is unusually so. The largest … in the north-east corner of the parish about 3 miles south-west of Wisbech town. But this accounts for less than … by the farm of that name on the North Brink at the south-east corner of the parish, was settled in 1624 by …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… local landowners in erecting an engine to drain Wisbech South Field. 69 The Corporation can also be credited with a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… The church of ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL consists of chancel, south vestry, south chapel, clerestoried nave, two south aisles, south porch, north aisle and north-west tower. …