[CAMBRIDGE.] TEVERSHAM. 94 [POST 0 FFICE of Downing College, and held by the Rev. Godfrey ~1ilnes landowners. The soil is clayey; subsoil, clay. The crops Sykes, M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, A Sunday are chiefly wheat, barley, beans and oats. The population school is he1 d weekly in the church. The manor was in 1861 was 214: the area is 717 acres. anciently in the family of Fitzwarren; at a later period in Parish Clerk, Edward Harbin. that of St. Geor!le, and afterwards in that of Downing; it is Letters through St. N eots, via Pot ton, Beds. Potton is the r.ow vested in the Master, Professors, and Fellows of nearest money order office. The neare!lt post office is at Downing College, Cambridge, who are also the principal Wrestlingworth, a mile and a half distant. Sykes Rev. Godfi·ey Milnes,M.A.[vicar] King John, farmer Wiggington John, farmer,NewEngland co:-.1 MERCIAL. MacGregor J ane( Mrs.), farmer, Tadlow farm liar bin John, shopkeeper & blacksmith Tower farm WilkieRuth(Mrs.),farmer,Chnrch farm

TEVERSHAM is a parish and village, 3~ miles east 11 acres of land are distributed annually between the school from Cambridge, and about half a mile south of the Cam­ and the poor. Caius College, Cambridge, who own the bridge and Newmarket road, in the hundred of Fiendish, manor. Caius College, Thomas ·ware, Esq., and Pem­ union ofChesterton, county court district of Cam bridge, rural broke College are the principal landowners. The ~oil is deanery of Cam briuge, and archdeaconry and diocese of Ely. white clay; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, The church of the Holy Trinity is a neat stone building, and barley and oats. The population in 1861 was 231 j the consists of nave, chancel, aisles, a tower, and I bell; it parish contains an area of 1,200 acres. was thoroug·hly restored in 1863. The register dates from Parish Clerk, Henry Muggleton. the year 1593. 'l'he living is a rectory, yearly value £352, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Ely, and held by the Rev. Frederick Carlyon, M.A., of Pembroke College, Letters received through Cambridge, which is tha nearest Cambridge. Here is a National school for boys and girls. money order office A Baptist chapel was built here in 1858. The proceeds of National School, Miss Honora Bell, mistress Carlyon Rev. Frederick, M.A. Rectory Covill William, Rose~ Crown Gillson James, shoe maker COMMERCIAJ,, Fison John Potterton, farmer, Manor lVI:ug-gleton Henry, farrner Collett Richard, farmer house Webb Alexander, farmer

THORNEY is a town, parish, and railway its light over the altar screen, of delicate and elaborate station, situated on the river N ene, remarkable for its neat­ workmanship, and richly illuminated tablets of the com­ ness, forming- a liberty in itself, in the north part of the mandments: the whole cost of these improvements wns hundred of Witchford, Isle of Ely, on the north-west border paid by the Duke of Bedford j and the tenantry, to mark of the county, close to the Catwatcr, and surrounded by long their thankfulness for an act of such considerate munifi­ drains leading to the port of Wisbech, in the hundred and cene, boughtt. by subscription, a fine organ, worth .£320, rural deanery of Wisbech, union and county court district and built by .Hobson and Son, which waR enlarged in 1858 of , arch deaconry and diocese of Ely. It is 86 by Messrs. Bryceson and Son, at the cost of £210, exclusive miles from London by road, 39 north-west from Cambridge, of the case~; the latter were made on the Duke's estate: 14 west from Wisbech, 7 east from Peterborough, 5~ north the organ is now divided, and stands on each !!ide of the from station, and 5 south ftom Crowland. The we~t win!low: it contains several beautiful and very rich Midland branch line of railway from Peterborough to Lynn solo- stops, amongst which are the Keraulophon clarionet pas!'es through the parish, and rail way stations are erected and Rhor flute: the full combination of the whole organ, at Thorney Town, and at Wrydc, about 2~ miles eastward. which contains twenty-four stops, is exceedingly effective: The town is built on a small eminence, eye, or island, and the whole work was planned by 1\Ir. Arthur Charles Thacker, was anciently called Ankeridge; a was founded the organist. The service in the abbey is choral. Here here by Saxulf, first of Medeshampstead, or Peter­ is a register, commencing in the French language, and borough. in the neighbourhood were formerly re­ dated 1650, which estahlishes the fact as to a number of lieved of their superfluous water:~ by the very uncertain Protestants having settled here after the revocation of the help of windmills; these have given way to a complete Edict of Nantes, The living is a donative, yearly value system of drainage by steam, the cost of which ex­ ,£220, in the gift of the Duke of Bedford and held by the ceeded £400,000. His Grace the Duke of Bedford has Hev. Joshua Cautlcy, B.A., of Jesus Coliege, Cambridge. erected extensive sanitary works for the benefit of Infant and National schools are founded, and maintained by Thorney, comprising gas, water, and sewerage works, to subscriptions of the noble landlord and hisresident tenantry. which are added saw mills, &e., for the use of the estate. There was formerly an hospital for poor persons attached to The town has been, in fact, rebuilt, and gas and water in­ the abbey. There is a Literary Society, with news room troduced to every house. The roads on the Bedford estate, and library. There is a right of market on Thursrlays, extending to 45 miles, are re~aired at the expense of the which has fallen into disuse: and fairs for horses, chiefly of Duke of Bedford. The farmhouses and buildings are the heavy kind, are held on July 1st and September 21st, gradually being renewed of the most substantial materials; and are well attended by dealers and others from all parts large improvements in this direction being carried out by the of the kingdom. The whole of the parish is a possession of noble proprietor. Some of the chief roads, at several parts of the Duke of Bedford, and is a gift from the Crown, which the pari~h, are adorned with avenues of fine trees; the Cause­ was held by Francis, Earl of Bedford, who, by enterprising way, Willow hall,and the Whittleseyroads are most noticeable. and energetic measures, drained a vast tract of low lands, This place took the name of Thorney from the number of called the'' Bedford Level," at that time a mere waste, but thorns growing around; and in 870 the abbey had a prior which now ranks amongst the most fertile districts in the and several monks : it was then wasted by the Danes, and kingdom. The mansion here, formerly occupied by the in 972 restored by St. Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester, as then Earl of Bedford, is a fine country residence; the gardens a house for Benedictine monks: the members of this house are tastefully laid out, and the neighbourhood affords some exerted themselves much, like most of their brethren, for pretty views. The soil is loam ; subsoil, clay. The chief bettering the neighbourhood; and WHliam of l't'lalmesbury, crops are wheat and beans. The population in 1861 was in the time of Henry II., speaks in glowing terms of the 2,219; the acreage ofthe parish is 17,697. beauty of the place, and the productiveness of its fields, WRYDB is 2! miles eastward; Willow Hall, 3 miles south­ orchards, and vineyards. The attained to great west; French Drove, 2 to 5 miles north; Stone Bridge, 2A power, were mitred, and sat in Parliament, and at the miles southJ.. and Thorney Dyke, 3 to 5 miles south-east, Dissolution the income was stated to be £411 12s. lld. Parish t;lerk, W. Russell. yearly. That the abbey was a building of vast extent is -- sufficiently clear from the remains of foundations dug up PosT & MoNEY ORDER OFFICE & Post Office Savings at sundry times at great distances from its still remaining Bank.-Arthur Charles Thacker, postmaster, Letters portion, which in 1638 was fitted up as a parish church, arrive from Peterborough by mail cart at 7 a.m. ; dis· and is named in honour of St. l\fary the Virgin : the style patched at 6.40 p.m of architecture is Mixed Saxon and Gothic, and the west INSURANCE AGENT.-Norwich Fire, John Buck front has considerable beauty: it bas a nave, north and PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS:- south transepts, with square tower, containing a clock and Gas Works, W. Scotney, secretary I bell. In 1840 and 1841 considerable additions were Reading~ News Rooms, Richard Smith, secretary made to the church under the direction of Mr. Blare, and PuBLIC OFFICERS:- the interior beautifully refitted; a magnificent window of Assistant Overseer, William Scotney, jun stained glass, in twenty-one compartments, representing Collector of Income Tax, Edward Southam the miracles of Thomas d Becket, a fac-simile of parts Inland Revenue Officer Joseph Taylor selected from the windows in , throws Regutrar of Births~ Deaths, John Clapham