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NOTE: Numbers in brackets [ ] are links to footnotes (click number to jump to footnotes).
Babraham 55,44,45,54   CCB Bot.Dist.1.
Babraham Common 45 49-51- Babraham
Badlingham 67 677.708 Chippenham
Baitsbite Lock 46 485.620 Milton/Fen Ditton
Balks nr Ickleton 44   [? = strip lynchetts nr Coploe Hill]
Balsars Hill see Belsars    
Ballast Pits 46 47-60- see Chesterton
Balsham 55,54 58-50- CCB Bot.Dist.1.
Balsham Dyke 55   = Fleam Dyke
Balsham Wood 54 588.496 Balsham
[Bardolph Fen 50   = Stow Bardolph Fen, Norfolk]
  50   [West Bardolph Fen] Norfolk]
Bar Hill 36 37-63- CCB Bot.Dist.4#
Barham Hall 54 57-46- Linton
Barnwell 45 46-59- Cambridge
Barrington 35,34,44,45   CCB Bot.Dist.3.
Barrington Hill 35 39-50- Barrington
Barrington Hill nr Linton [2] 54 56-48- Linton
Barrington Cement Works 35 39-50-,39-51- Barrington
Barrington Pit 34 383.492 Barrington
Barrington Chalk Pit 35 399.511 Barrington
Barrington Reserve 34 395.495 Barrington
Bartlow 54 585.452  
Bartlow Hills 58 586.448 Bartlow
Bartlow Wood 54 ?  
Barton [3] 57   Ely
Barton Farm 57 53-79- Ely
Barton Meadows 57 ?53-79- CCB Dist. 6.
Barton 45,35    
Barton Church 45 407.557  
Barton Lane (W) 40 c.45-09- Wisbech
Barway (Barraway) 57 54-75- Soham
Basefield Wood 65 650.570 Stetchworth
Bassenhally Pits 29 286.985 Whittlesey
Bassingbourn 34    
Batson Drove [4] 56 ? Swaffham Prior
Beacon 55 581.598 Swaffham Bulbeck
Beacon 55 580.587 Bottisham
Beacon Course 56   Swaffham Prior
Beechwood 45 486.548 Stapleford
Beezling Drove 38 36-86-etc Doddington
Beezling Fen 38 36-86-etc Doddington
Beezling Fen Drove 38 36-86-etc Doddington
Bedlam Bridge 49 46-94- Upwell/Wimblington
Bedlam Farm 49 49-90- Manea
Belsars Hill 47 42-70- Willingham
Bentham's Folly/Monument 57 540.799 Ely [Cherry Hill]
Benwick 39, 38    
Benwick White Fen 39 34-92- etc Benwick
Benwick Turf Fen 38 33-89- Benwick
Bevill's Leam [5] 29,39   Whittlesey
Biggin Closes nr Ditton 46 487.617 Fen Ditton
Bigwin Closes 46   as above
Bird's Pastures Farm 36 346.610 Childerley
Black Bank [6] 58 53-85- Lt Downham
Black Boy Low [7] 41 470.106 Walsoken, Vc 29
Black Bush Drain 29   Pondersbridge
Blackbush Drove 29 25-93-, 25-94-,25-95- Whittlesey
Blacklands 44 446.485 Thriplow/Whittlesford
Black Tunnel [8] 41 ? ?Wisbech
Black Sluice nr the Nene [9] 41 456.123 Leverington. Vc 28
Block/Black Fen 48   Chatteris
Block Fen/Drove 48 427.832 Chatteris
Block Fen Farm 48 436.840 Chatteris
Blockmoor Drove 48 422.822 Sutton (nr Mepal)
Bomber Gap, Devil's Ditch 66 605.625 Swaffham Prior/Burwell
Borley Wood 54 580.486 Linton
Boots Bridge ?48   on Old Bedford River between Welches Dam & Welney =? Purls
Boots Bridge 49 445.911 on 16 Foot, Wimblington
[Borough Fen 20   Soke of Peterborough, west of Thorney]
Bottisham 56, 55    
Bottisham Fen 56   Lode
Bottisham Lock 56 508.657 Lode
Bourn 35,36    
Bourn Bridge 54 520.492 Lt Abington/Pampisford
Bourn Bridge 35   ? see Toft Bridge
Bourn Brook 35 35-55- Bourn/Toft
Bourn Brook Bridge 45 40-54- Barton/Haslingfield
Bourn Hall Wood 35 319.557 Bourn
Bourn Park 35   Bourn
Bourn Wood 35 314.555 Bourn, E of A.1198
Bowling Green[Inn] [10] 41 4628.1000 Wisbech
Boxworth 36, 35    
Boxworth Grove [11] 36 345.639 Boxworth
Brackland Rough 66 634.697 Fordham
Braham Dock, 57 53-77- Ely
Bran Ditch 44 417.426 Heydon Grange
Braddens Wood 56 531.610 Bottisham
Brandon Creek 69 601.904 Methwold, Norfolk
Brick-pits by the Observatory [12] 45 433.594 Cambridge
Brimloes/Brimble Hill 34 381.482 Shepreth
Brinkley 65, 55    
Brinkley Wood 65 615.554 Brinkley
Broadpiece Farm 48 421.802 Sutton
Brokers Drain ?48   Mepal
Brokers Hall Farm ?48   Chatteris
Brook Grove 45 40-52- Haslingfield
Buff Wood 25 283.503 Hatley St George
[Burloes Hill 34 36-40- Royston, Vc 20]
Burnt Fen 68   Littleport
Burnt Fen Bank 58 58-85- Littleport
Burnt House Drove 39 33-94-/95-/96-/97- Whittlesey
Burrell's Walk 45 442.584 Cambridge
Burrough Green 65, 55    
Burrough Green Church 65 634.554  
Burrowmoor 39 39-95-,39-96- March
Burwell 56, 66    
Burwell Fen 56   Burwell
Burwell Pit 56 592.662 Burwell
Burystead (Farm) 47 434.788 Sutton
Bushbeach ?48   ? Chatteris
Bushland [?Rushland] ?48   ? Chatteris
Bushy Place [13] 41 c.?457.109 Wisbech
Byal Fen 48 46-82- Coveney
Byall Fen 48 49-84- Downham
Byall Fen 48 45-86-,46-86- Manea
Byron's Pool 45 436.546 Grantchester

FOOTNOTES
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2 just east of Furze Hills area,1st Ed. OS 1" map

3 see also Lower Barton

4 name said to derive from Small-leaved Lime

5 Pondersbridge to Angle Corner

6 Sium lat ‘Between the New Bedford River and Black Bank, by the railway.’

7 ‘Geranium pratense By the side of a ditch adjoining the Toll Bar between Wisbech and the Black Boy Low at Walsoken. m. June.1818.’ see The Inns & Taverns of Wisbech, Arthur A Oldham, (1979). 10 Aug. 1855 advertised for Sale...used as a Public House, and known by the sign of “The Black Buoy Low” with c. 3 acres in Walsoken, Norf. next the Turnpike Rd from Lynn and within a few minutes walk of Town of Wisbech. Fruit & other trees, fish ponds etc.

8 ‘near the tunnel on the first salt water flat below Bushy Place ... near the foot of the Bank near the Black Tunnel below Bushy-Place. 1826.’ Skrim.MS.

9 Alexander Peckover's watercolour in History of Wisbech: ‘Black Sluice by the Nene’. = West side of Nene, half way between Walton Dam Ferry and Horseshoe. see Plan & Section of the Intended Improvements of the Wisbech River from Guyhirn to Kindersley's Cut and of the intended Improvements in the Town of Wisbech. W. Swanborough. 1826. (Ink & watercolour) CUL. Maps MS. (= Leverington Sluice on Faden's Map of Norfolk, 1797). [Twenty Foot SW of Guyhirn, 1664 Map. There is also a Black Sluice Bridge at Outwell, 498.003, O.S 2" map ]

10 Wood's 1830 Map & The Inns & Taverns of Wisbech, Arthur A Oldham, (1979), The Bowling Green, p.3.

11 1st ed. 1" OS map. White Grove on 2" maps

12 gravel pits just to east of the Observatory

13 ‘on the east side of the River Bank at Bushy-Place, Wishbh. March 9th 1824.’ two baptisms for children born to Isaac & Elizabeth Waddington of Bushy Place, & Town Watch Book (1794) land shown at the Horseshoe Corner with a house on it. The Minutes May 21st 1824, mention Waddingham [sic] building a shed below the “inclosed gardens at Horseshoe Corner” or ? 469.105/6.

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