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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… It is situated on an acclivity above Bottesford beck, and comprises 733 a. 3 r. 6 p. The common lands were inclosed … 178 inhabitants. It is situated in the vale of the Wisk, and comprises by computation 1120 acres of land, divided … levied upon all beer carried to sea; also an income of 56. 10. derived from various private benefactions. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Yapton 93 lies on the coastal plain south-west of Arundel and c. 2 miles (3 km.) from the sea. In 1881 it had 1,740 a. … Main and Bilsham roads was called Bognor bridge by 1886. 56 Drove Lane mentioned from 1542 57 was presumably the … 34; xlix. 16. Ibid. xix. 34; cf. ibid. v. 201. W.S.R.O., Harris MS. 509 (TS. cat.). S.R.S. iv. 30. Deed, 1771, in …
A History of the County of Somerset
… shape, measuring 2.5 km. from north to south at its widest and 3 km. from east to west. The only natural boundary is a … of the river Cam in the south-east; parts of the eastern and western boundaries are marked by roads. 74 The boundaries … by 1657), Thomas (d. 1691), and George Chafyn (d. 1766). 56 In 1746 trustees conveyed Woolston to James Harding. 57 By …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and 1161, of Yarnton chapel to Eynsham abbey. 43 Yarnton was probably a daughter church of the abbey, and it was still occasionally called a chapel in the 14th … College and, from 1986, with the duke of Marlborough. 56 The church was served by chaplains until appropriation, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Yarnton of detached parts of Begbroke parish, 14 and the sharing of lot meadows along the Thames, may indicate … seems to have comprised c. 25 a. exclusive of meadow and pasture, 15 and in 1617 a 2-yardland estate contained 44 … 1 keeper of the oxen, and 1 dairyman and his assistant. 56 Under Rewley abbey the amount of demesne arable was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Education Hugh Evans, vicar of Yarnton 1579-1618, and John Goad, vicar 1646-60, kept small private schools at … 49 No other school is known before the later 18th century, and the vicar reported in 1768 that the parish children were … 55 was usually spent on clothes for the schoolchildren. 56 From 1817 a room in the new parish clerk's house at the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Thames. 41 The river forms the southern parish boundary, and a tributary stream known as Rowel brook in the north and as Kingsbridge brook in the south formed the eastern … flooded and water could not be drained from the village. 56 Improvements were made in the 20th century by changes at …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Steeple Barton, Cassington, Hampton Gay, Rousham, and Whitehill (in Tackley). 16 That Yarnton was referred to … as a demesne manor. 17 Yarnton remained quit of shire and hundred after 1281, under its new owner Rewley abbey. 18 … vestry ordered a register of hirings to be kept. After £56 had been spent in 1829-30 the vestry sought to limit its …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Manor and other estates Manor and other estates In 1005 Ealdorman Aethelmaer granted 10 … sold by him shortly after the First World War to Edward Harris, whose son Edward was the owner in 1986. 93 The …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… several summits. There is a barrow on it in the south and, also in the south, it was marked by many stones and … and other members of his family to trustees of Charles Harris (d. 1871) of Calne. 11 About 1930 it passed, … in open fields until the mid 19th century. 68 In 1795 Bourne field, c. 150 a., lay north of the village, and Hill …