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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… THORNEY This large parish 1 is of a different type from the others in Wisbech hundred. Its nucleus is an island of gravel, not … a similar scale occurred in 1770, when the north bank of Moreton's Learn burst at Abel's Gull. After this a farm of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Hundred Tydd St. Giles TYDD ST. GILES Tydd St. Giles, the northernmost parish in Cambridgeshire, is situated 6 miles north of Wisbech. The … or Shoddyk Field. 12 East of the Roman Bank are High Marsh and Low Marsh, representing the land inclosed from the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech St. Mary WISBECH ST. MARY Wisbech St. Mary, one of the larger parishes of the Isle, covers an area of some … Nene. It appears to have emerged from Wisbech (St. Peter) in 1109 when Wisbech vill was divided between the Bishop of … Pope Gregory IX, c. 1231, con-' firmed 160 acres in the marsh ( mora) of Wisbech to the monastery. 5 John de Watford …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… or standing within a double canopy or. (Granted 1929.) The charter of 1549, 45 making Wisbech a corporate borough … of a common seal. 47 They were to hold the guild property in socage, and were licensed to acquire further property up … without success several schemes of improvement-in Sutton Marsh (1719) and in Thorney Fen and the Bedford level …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Fees FEES In 1221 the tenants by military service were as follows: William de … granted to the Abbey of Thorney 1,000 acres in the marsh of Wisbech. 9 The Thorney property in Wisbech was worth …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Introduction WISBECH Wisbech is the largest and only corporate town in the Isle, and the nodal point for the whole marshland area … to its present course in c. 1300 and the cutting of Moreton's Leam in 1478 have reduced its importance. The …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Manors MANORS The first authentic reference to Wisbech occurs c. 1000, when … as a monk, gave the vill to the monastery of Ely. 54 In 1086 Wisbech was held by the abbot, and rated at 10 hides, … recorded as arable, 3,748 as meadow and pasture, and 55 as marsh and common. 87 Two rentals of 1632 and 1778-9 are of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Port, Nene outfall, canal PORT, NENE OUTFALL, CANAL The original combined outfall of the Ouse and Nene, by … about 1480, when the flow of water was improved by cutting Moreton's Leam. Bishop West spent £200 on a new sluice, which was broken by a sea flood in or before 1523, 4 but by 1566 there was a certain amount …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… Meathop and Ulpha WITHERSLACK, MEATHOP AND ULPHA. The mesne manor of Meathop and Ulpha with land at Crackenthorpe in Beetham was an early feoffment by one of the lords of … and licence to impark 600 acres of wood, moor and marsh within the said manor; Cal. of. Chart. R. IV, 486. 1347 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Withington 93 WITHINGTON (C.c.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)XXVII, S.W., (b)XXXIV, N.W.) Withington is a parish 4 m. N.E. of Hereford. The church and Thing Hill Grange, which retains much of its … building, perhaps originally a pigeon-house. b(11). Marsh Farm, house, on the E. side of the road, 1,600 yards …