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2 days ago · 31. This is a list of members of Parliament elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in the 1970 general election held on 18 June. Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included John Prescott, Norman Tebbit, Ian Paisley, John Smith, Neil Kinnock, Kenneth Clarke, John Gummer, Alan Haselhurst, Dennis Skinner, and Gerald Kaufman . Table ...
5 days ago · A watercourse which rises near the south-western corner of the parish follows a shallow valley through its eastern half. Woodland was recorded in 1086, (fn. 4) and woods ranging from c. 6 a. to 12 a. belonged to Great Childerley manor between 1300 and 1500. (fn. 5) Little Childerley manorial wood, beside which assarts had created crofts, one ...
5 days ago · Ely is a Cathedral City founded in 673 when Princess Etheldreda, daughter of the Anglo-Saxon King Anna adopted Christianity & formed a Convent one mile north of the Saxon village of Cratendune, an act that later ensured her elevation to Saint Etheldreda. However, Ely dates back much further as recent Archaeological excavations have unearthed ...
2 days ago · Cardiff ( / ˈkɑːrdɪf /; Welsh: Caerdydd [kairˈdiːð, kaːɨrˈdɨːð] ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. Cardiff had a population of 362,310 in 2021 and forms a principal area officially known as the City and County of Cardiff (Welsh: Dinas a Sir Caerdydd ). The city is the eleventh largest in the United Kingdom.
4 days ago · Abbots Way, Ely, Cambridgeshire. Terraced 3 1. A well presented three bedroom mid-terrace home situated in an established development close to Ely College and the Isle of Ely Leisure Village. Added on 05/06/2024 by Pocock & Shaw, Ely. 01353 881278 Local call rate.
1 day ago · 5. THE PRIORY OF ICKLETON. The earliest reference found to the priory at Ickleton is a commission, issued between 1174 and 1181 by Pope Alexander III to the Abbot of St. Albans and the Prior of Kenilworth, to adjudicate on a claim made by the nuns for a pension of 40s. out of Fowlmere Church, which they alleged that St. Thomas of Canterbury had granted them, apparently about 1163.
Impington covered 1,668 a. in 1891. (fn. 2) The ancient boundary with Milton and Chesterton partly followed medieval arable strips. In the south-east it follows the Roman Akeman Street, locally called Mere Way. (fn. 3) A south-western tongue of the ancient parish reached the Cambridge-Huntingdon road, also Roman in origin (fn. 4) and a turnpike ...
