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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Hundred Elm ELM Elm, on the Norfolk border between Wisbech and Outwell, is one of the larger parishes in the Isle. It … shape usually found in Wisbech hundred, with the church and village on the firm silt land at the north-east end, just … The alterations made under the county Review Order of 1933 and the Ministry of Health Provisional Orders Confirmation …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Leverington LEVERINGTON Leverington is a large parish and village on the northwest of Wisbech. 1 The lay-out-a … outfall, a village site protected by the 'Roman Bank', and a landward extension into the fen-was originally the same … Parson Drove (q.v.), has been separated both for civil and ecclesiastical purposes, and the hamlet of Gorefield is …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… elongated shape usual in the marshland areas of the Isle and Holland, stretching from the light silt soils by the Nene … of the district, forms part of the boundary between Newton and Tydd on the northwest. The boundary with Leverington on the south is not so clearly defined, and the small hamlet of Fitton End lies across this boundary. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… differently constituted, with narrow frontages to the Bank and long extensions into the fen. Since, moreover, Thorney is on peat and not on silt fen, the orchards and market gardens which are such a feature of the Wisbech …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… north of Wisbech. The Shire Drain divides it on the north and west from the sister parish of Tydd St. Mary in … separating, as it has done, two counties, two dioceses, and in all probability two AngloSaxon kingdoms. The upper … eastern boundary of the parish is also a county boundary, and was in 1934 adjusted to conform with the modern course of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… remained a quarter-sessions town ever since; the January and July sessions for the Isle are held here, those in April and October at Ely. 9 The Shire Hall on the east side of the … in 1810; it was replaced by the existing Sessions House and Police Station on the South Brink. 10 Since the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… John Wing was appointed to the office at a salary of £35, and a new post of chamberlain was created. 4 In 1849 the town clerk's salary was £45 a year, and he also drew £15 a year as clerk to the Sub-Commissioners of Pilotage and £25 as clerk to the Charity Trustees. 5 A beadle is …
A History of the County of Sussex
… WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south and 1½ miles wide at its widest point. The ancient parish … of Ashington parish which lay entirely within Wiston and comprised 256 a., was added to it between 1882 and 1891. …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… time was 10s. 2 In Wiseton were four bovats of land and an half, which anciently were wont to yield 10s. which … John, gave to one William le Harper paying 15d. per annum, and his heirs continued to hold it. 3 The jury, in 3 E: 3, … of land in Wiston, by the service of 1d. ob. per annum, and that he likewife held there one mess. forty-five acres of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 5 miles (W.) from Ely, … the king's books at 8. 11. 0.; net. income, 100; patrons and appropriators, the Chapter of Ely. There is a place of … ( All Saints), a parish, in the union of Wimborne and Cranborne, hundred of Cranborne, Wimborne division of …