Search
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Pulteney-Town, is 233. The parish is bounded on the east by the Moray Frith, and is about sixteen miles in … low island, divided from that of Rousay, on the south-east side, by the narrow channel of Wier Sound; it is about … The convent was situated on an abrupt ridge to the south-east of the town, overlooking the bay of Wigton; but no …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wicken WICKEN Wicken lies about ten miles north-east of Cambridge, and five south of Ely. 17 It covers 1,604 … called Monks' Lode by the 17th century. 22 To the north-east Wicken's boundary with Soham curves along a fen … swell to the west. The ridge provided near its south-east end a site for Wicken village, the swell space for …
A History of the County of Northampton
… transferred to Buckinghamshire in 1832-44. 39 To the east and north-east Wicken has a lengthy boundary with Passenham, running in … apparently marked by the stream which flows from west to east through the village of Wicken to join Kings Brook at …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… nominally 350 a., at inclosure, but not the dolvers to the east, were allowed to be exempt from tithe by prescription, … acquired a 3a. plot north of Church Lane, just beyond the east end of the village, in order to build on it a house, let … in the 18th century. 38 It stands by the roadside ½ mile east of the village, just north of the modern Wicken Hall. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… fields, on the west Fodder Fen field (105 a.), on the east Frith field (130 a.), also called by the 1730s Mill … group of closes around Hall Farm in the parish's south-east corner, of which all but 105 a. were grassland in 1800. … a blunted, ring-fenced triangle, bounded on the north-east by the later Lower Drove. It was divided from Frith …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… an institution. It had occupied a row of cottages at the east end of the village green, still owned by the parish in … rural district from 1894 to 1974, when it was included in East Cambridgeshire. 71 The village had a resident policeman …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… including c. 275 a. of ancient several closes in the south-east corner of the parish, was sold in 1835 to the Revd. … have stood in a moated site of 200 by 100 ft., slightly east of the village and a little south of the church and the … threestoreyed block, possibly 16th-century, to the north-east, which had a massive chimney breast in its north wall …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… land in 1763; the glebe comprises about 75 acres. Wickham, East (St. Michael) WICKHAM, EAST ( St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Dartford, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… situated on the river Ouse, which passes on the north and east; and comprises 694 acres of land, in four farms. …
Alumni Oxonienses
… B.D. 31 May, 1593; rector of Albury, Oxon, 1595, and of East Ilsley, Berks, 1607. See Foster's Index Ecclesiasticus. … 1610); rector of Fobbing 1687, and vicar of Tilbury East, (both) Essex, 1687; father of Peter 1708. See Foster's … 20 June, 1609; died 28 March, 1613, M.I. St. Peter-inthe-East, Oxford. See Hearne, i. 137. Wilcox, Edward student …