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WHITTLESEY , a See also:market See also:town in the See also:Wisbech See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Cambridgeshire, See also:England, 54 M. E. of See also:Peterborough, between that See also:city and See also:March, on the See also:Great Eastern railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901) 3909. It lies on a See also:gentle See also:eminence in the See also:flat fen See also:country, and the See also:fine Perpendicular See also:tower and See also:spire of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:Mary are a landmark from far. A little to the See also:north is the great artificial cut carrying the See also:waters of the
See also:river Nene; and the neighbourhood is intersected with many other navigable " drains." To the See also:south-See also:west is the See also:tract known as Whittlesey See also:Mere, 6 m. distant from the town, in See also:Huntingdon-See also:shire. It was a See also:lake until See also:modern times, when it was included in a See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme of drainage. The so-called Whittlesey See also:Wash, in the neighbourhood of the town, is among several tracts in the See also:fens which are perennially flooded. St Mary's church is principally Perpendicular, but has See also:Norman and Decorated portions; the church of St See also:Andrew is also Decorated and Perpendicular. The town has manufactures of bricks and tiles, and a considerable agricultural See also:trade.
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