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Há 2 dias · A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 9, Chesterton, Northstowe, and Papworth Hundreds. Covers the suburban and rural areas to the north and north-west of Cambridge. Victoria County History - Cambridgeshire. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1989. This free content was digitised by double rekeying.
Há 5 dias · Cambridge, the county town, and since 1951 a city, owes its position to the crossing of two natural lines of communication. The Cam, constituting a river route from south-west to north-east, was a main artery for traffic through the Fenland until the railway period; (fn. 1) as the Recorder of Cambridge said in his speech to James I in 1615 ...
Há 5 dias · A F Wareham. A P M Wright, 'Great Wilbraham', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 10, Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (North-Eastern Cambridgeshire), (London, 2002) pp. 304-306.
Há 4 dias · ELSWORTH Figure 18: Elsworth c. 1790. The extensive parish of Elsworth, covering 1,554 ha. (3,839 a.), lies 14 km. (9 miles) west of Cambridge. In shape an irregular hexagon, with an average length and breadth of c. 4 km. (2½ miles), it is bounded to the south by the road from Cambridge to St. Neots, a turnpike between 1772 and 1876, to the east, towards its formerly dependent vill of ...
Há 4 dias · The Papworths in the late 18th century. PAPWORTH Everard, (fn. 1) so named from a 12th century lord of the manor (fn. 2) but in the 19th century often called Papworth St. Everard (fn. 3) through a mistaken analogy with its neighbour Papworth St. Agnes, lies by the former western edge of Cambridgeshire. The parish, approximately lozenge-shaped ...
Há 3 dias · SOHAM. The parish of Soham, (fn. 1) with its 5,260 ha. (12,999 a.) (fn. 2) the largest in Cambridgeshire outside the Isle of Ely, lies on the border between the Isle and the southern part of the county, at its north-eastern angle. (fn. 3) Soham village stands five miles (8 km.) south-east of Ely and six miles (9.5 km.) north-west of Newmarket ...
Há 3 dias · He was a man of good birth and abilities and was prior of Noyon, a cell of St. Evroul, when he was selected by King Henry to be abbot of Thorney in 1113, rather over a year after Gunther's death, (fn. 71) which post he held until his own death in 1151. During his time Robert of Leicester, abbot of St. Evroul, being in England on business, died ...
