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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wisbech - Wiswell Wisbech (St. Mary) WISBECH ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 3 … of Elmham. William the Conqueror, in the last year of his reign, erected a strong castle here, which he placed …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… OF PARSON DROVE Parson Drove, originally a township and chapelry of Leverington, became a separate ecclesiastical … extends about equally into Parson Drove and Wisbech St. Mary. Fendyke Bank, the great bank stretching from … sleep in a 'sad, cold, stony chamber in a miserable inn'. His visit was made in connexion with the affairs of his …
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 … new course has formed the boundary between Elm and Wisbech St. Mary. There are many subsidiary drains. Elm High Road … succeeded' were specially commended by Jeremiah Jackson in his diary. 3 Twenty years later, although barn robberies were …
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 … Their daughter Mary married Thomas Kervile of Wiggenhall St. Mary (Norf.), and the manor remained in this family for … though it appeared to be 'no longer known as a Manor'. 56 Anthony Buckworth, great-greatgrandson of Richard and Grace …
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 … by every tenant of lands in Wisbech, Leverington, Tydd St. Giles, and Newton according to the proportion of their … house. Every tenant had 1 s. for each lot added to his quit-rent. The allotments comprised a total of 518 acres, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Outwell and Upwell OUTWELL AND UPWELL These two villages lie astride … by the Act of 1841 9 (see also Leverington and Tydd St. Giles), under which Cottons Common (98 acres) and 15 … Sir Robert Bell succeeded to the property in virtue of his marriage with the heiress of Edmund Beaupr, the …
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 … and pupil of Inigo Jones, as it has a marked similarity to his work at Thorpe Hall, Peterborough. 29 There is a fine … and (outside the village), Willow Hall and Prior's Farm. St. Vincent's Cross, in the north-west corner of the parish …
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 … north of Wisbech. The Shire Drain divides it on the north and west from the sister parish of Tydd St. Mary in … of Upwell in 1573. 8 John Laverock devised by will 9 to his son Edmund 'all free lands and my house that I have in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Wisbech St. Mary WISBECH ST. MARY Wisbech St. Mary, one of the larger … when Wisbech vill was divided between the Bishop of Ely and the prior and convent. That this separation had not taken … was in 1525-6 settled by Christopher Coote and Elizabeth his wife on John Hudleston and others, together with a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… when in the settlement of a dispute between Bishop Hotham and Sir Geoffrey de Coleville over their manors of Wisbech and Walsoken, certain houses erected by the latter at his end of the bridge are alluded to. 55 Grants of pontage …