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A History of the County of Oxford
… Yelford Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Yelford's medieval open fields probably covered much of the area of the Hastings family's inclosed estate depicted in 1625, 18 together with Yelford …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yelford Introduction YELFORD YELFORD, one of Oxfordshire's smallest rural parishes until it was included in 1932 in … to severe depopulation in the later Middle Ages, Yelford's west part became an inclosed estate in single ownership, leaving other holdings to the east in open fields cropped with the fields of Hardwick. That …
A History of the County of Oxford
… tenants of the former Grey manor paid suit to Hardwick's courts, 89 which until the 1580s nominated a separate … until inclosure in 1853, tenants of Wadham College's Yelford estate, descended from the Grey manor, were still attending Hardwick's courts. 92 Mid 16th- century courts held nominally for …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Roman b(1) Roman settlement (?) (SP 595745), in the S. of the parish, on Boulder Clay at 125 m. above OD. A few … N. is a long narrow rectangular area orientated W.N.W.E.S.E., situated between three distinct blocks of … as evidence that a village has been laid out over earlier fields with the closes determined by the curve of the ridges …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… of Narberth, county of Pembroke, South Wales, 4 miles (S. W.) from Narberth; containing 148 inhabitants. This parish … The living is a discharged rectory, rated in the king's books at 5. 3. 9., endowed with 400 private benefaction and … are equally full. At an inn known by the sign of the "Lamb and Flag," in the parish, the outlawed criminal …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… lace-making. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 13. 13. 4.; net income, 317; patron and incumbent, the Rev. E. S. Bunting. The church is an ancient structure, and contains … of York, Mustard is a valuable article of cultivation; and fields of it are occasionally to be seen in different places …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… and then the city defences, following the circuit S.W. of the Ouse from Skeldergate Bridge, to Lendal Bridge, … places was filled with water, still remain on the N.E. and S.W. sides. Roman defences of the legionary fortress on the … to the marshy banks of the two rivers. A palace in King's Court possibly included remains of the S.E. gate of the …
Survey of London
… Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, in exchange for the Duke's house in Southwark. This grant preserved the rights of … Strand house only occasionally. c Early in 1556 the Duke's heirs surrendered 191 it to the Queen, by whom 192 it was … 4 stables and 7 gardens in the parish of St. Martin in the Fields." Thenceforward "Suffolk Place" became "York House," …
Survey of London
… York Road, was made across demesne land of the Arch bishop's manor of Lambeth. Except for a fringe of cottages along … land was undeveloped. It was divided by open ditches into fields, Float Mead, The Twenty-one Acres, and The Seven … houses were erected on the York Road frontage of Field's property circa 1829. They form a simple terrace in stock …