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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… northernmost parish in Cambridgeshire, is situated 6 miles north of Wisbech. The Shire Drain divides it on the north and west from the sister parish of Tydd St. Mary in … watercourse in the parish, after the Nene, is the North Level Main Drain (1831-4), the successor to the Shire …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Isle, covers an area of some 10,000 acres 1 on the left (north-west) bank of the Nene. It appears to have emerged from … so. The largest settlement is round the church, in the north-east corner of the parish about 3 miles south-west of … is joined by B 1169 from Leverington which runs along the north edge of the parish. The Peterborough- Sutton Bridge …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… chapel, clerestoried nave, two south aisles, south porch, north aisle and north-west tower. The history of the fabric is involved and … a clerestory and another aisle added to the south; the north aisle was also widened at this time. A little later in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 17 A chantry was founded by the Holy Trinity Guild on the north side of the church in 1453, and endowed with land to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in wills of 1495. 92 St. Martin's Chantry lay on the North Brink adjoining White Hall. 93 The rental made at the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the Nene about 12 miles from its present outfall, 94 miles north of London and 40 from Cambridge by road. It is one of a … and South Brink (Wisbech St. Peter) and Murrow or North Brink (Wisbech St. Mary). The fact that the three … The old wards and the 'watches' were then replaced by the North and South Wards which lasted until the boundary …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the several fishery known as Depewere, which extended north-eastwards downstream from the bishop's fishery of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Street, and was moved twelve years later to Bank House, North Brink. It was a branch of the Norwich firm of Gurney, … for £2,400 and laid out as a public park. 40 The North Cambridgeshire Hospital, overlooking the park, was … portions was necessary. 55 A theatre existed in North End in 1792. 56 A new one was built in 1793, as part of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… interests through his appointment as Keeper of the North Level Sluice (1830) and Superintendent of the Nene …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 15 and had a meetinghouse, originally two cottages, on the North Brink on the site of the present building as early as …