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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. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the nodal point for the whole marshland area comprised by south-east Holland and Norfolk west of the Ouse. It is … 1610 the area was divided into three 'watches'-Town and South Brink (Wisbech St. Peter) and Murrow or North Brink … divided into ten wards (Timber Market, Church, Castle, South, Barton, White Cross, Old Market, Ship Lane, New …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to grind their corn, and a newly constructed windmill. South-west, from the Horseshoe as far as Wryde in Thorney, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… by the existing Sessions House and Police Station on the South Brink. 10 Since the demolition of the Wisbech Jail (see … erected in 1807 next the site of the new shire hall on the South Brink, was used for French prisoners of war. This jail … newspapers are the Isle of Ely and Wisbech Advertiser, South Lincs., Cambs. and West Norfolk Journal, issued on …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was a man of more than local celebrity, and was M.P. for South Cambridgeshire from 1865 and Sheriff of London in 1871. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… a new Sunday school. There are two subordinate chapels, at South Brink (1848), about 2 miles south-west of the town, and at Gorefield (1836) in …