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Kelly's Directory of Huntingdonshire (1898) described: POND’S BRIDGE is an ecclesiastical parish formed September 18, 1866, from portions of the parishes of Stanground, Ramsey and Whittlesea, surrounding the border line of the counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon, 6 miles south-east from Peterborough, 3 miles north-west from St. Mary's ...
Whittlesea Mere was an area of open water in the Fenland area of the county of Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire), England. The mere occupied the land southeast of Yaxley Fen, south of Farcet Fen and north of Holme Fen. The town of Whittlesey lay to the northeast. [1] Whittlesea Mere was the last of the 'great meres' to be drained.
The City of Whittlesea is a local government area located in the outer northern suburbs of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covers an area of 490 square kilometres (189.2 sq mi), and in June 2023, it had an estimated population of 245,029 [ 1 ] and is one of Victoria's fastest growing Municipalities.
Ptolemy's map of Ireland This page was last edited on 25 October 2019, at 20:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
More recently, a World Ortelius map sold for £4,000 (about $5,000) at an auction in 2012. These maps are celebrated for their artistry and the way they reflect the geographical knowledge of the ...
Ireland is an island in Northern Europe in the north Atlantic Ocean.The island, of up to around 480 km (300 mi) north-south, and 275 km (171 mi) east-west, lies near the western edge of the European continental shelf, part of the Eurasian Plate.
In general, neither Ireland nor Great Britain uses latitude or longitude in describing internal geographic locations. Instead grid reference systems are used for mapping.. The national grid referencing system was devised by the Ordnance Survey, and is heavily used in their survey data, and in maps (whether published by the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland or ...
Whittlesey (also Whittlesea) is a market town and civil parish in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England. Whittlesey is 6 miles (10 km) east of Peterborough . The population of the parish was 17,667 at the 2021 Census.