Search
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a little wood. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 28, and in the gift of the Rev. T. F. R. Read, … gives the title of Earl to the Tumour family. Winthorpe (St. Mary) WINTHORPE ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Spilsby, Marsh division …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… a small N.W.-flowing stream which also forms part of the S. boundary. From this central valley, at about 130 m. above … steeply over Lias clays, to a maximum of 168 m. in the S.W. and 190 m. in the N.E., across a rolling landscape … the S. side of the large mound on which the church of St. Michael is situated. Two parallel ditches N.W. of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wisbech - Wiswell Wisbech (St. Mary) WISBECH ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, … with the Nene. Corporation Seal. From the date of Wulfhere's charter, little is recorded of the history of the place …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… extends about equally into Parson Drove and Wisbech St. Mary. Fendyke Bank, the great bank stretching from … district on the north side of Wisbech which includes Tydd St. Giles, Newton, Leverington, Guyhirn, and Wisbech St. … date a gap 130 yards wide was made, probably at Abel's Gull. Parts of the country-side were flooded to a depth of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the inclusion (from Wisbech Borough) of the hamlet of Ring's End, on the Nene opposite Guyhirn. Although it is … new course has formed the boundary between Elm and Wisbech St. Mary. There are many subsidiary drains. Elm High Road … Froman, and 60 acres held of the Bishop of Ely by Lord St. John (of Bletsoe), probably also exCrowland property, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 2 acres. Before this time various creeks, such as Carlton's Creek, 5 penetrated a long way inland and allowed the … Their daughter Mary married Thomas Kervile of Wiggenhall St. Mary (Norf.), and the manor remained in this family for … (1781-1840), rector 1812-17 and later Bishop of St. David's and Dean of Durham. Richard Reynolds (1674-1744), …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… electricity transmission line from Peterborough to King's Lynn. In 1839, out of a total of 2,771 acres of land in the … by every tenant of lands in Wisbech, Leverington, Tydd St. Giles, and Newton according to the proportion of their … been that carried out by Henry Dereham in 1635 (see Tydd St. Giles) and Lumpkin's words suggest that there had taken …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… through these and neighbouring parishes. Such are Popham's Eau, an early 17thcentury cut to guide the waters of the … by the Act of 1841 9 (see also Leverington and Tydd St. Giles), under which Cottons Common (98 acres) and 15 … market (on Wednesdays) and a yearly fair on the feast of St. Peter and St. Paul were renewed to the Abbot and the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Croft. 7 The Rose and Crown Inn was acquired by the People's Refreshment House Association in 1899 and was one of their … and (outside the village), Willow Hall and Prior's Farm. St. Vincent's Cross, in the north-west corner of the parish … was declared to be drained at a Session of Sewers held at St. Ives in 1637, 48 but the following year the excuse …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Tydd St. Giles TYDD ST. GILES Tydd St. Giles, the northernmost parish in … Tydd, has been known since the 17th century as Lady Nunn's Old Eau, from the wife of a 14th-century Tydd landowner. 1 …