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A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Church Church The earliest reference to a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and 1161, of … George SpencerChurchill, duke of Marlborough. Some of the wood survived and was used in 1921 to make stalls for the … belfry screen of folding doors dated 1634 and of carved wood 'taken from out-of-sight places in the body of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Economic history Economic history The presence in Yarnton of detached parts of Begbroke parish, 14 and the … farming, with increasing emphasis on pasture. Anthony Wood commented on the richness of pasture in the parish, 82 … Quarterly Paper, ix: copy in Bodl. Per. G.A. Oxon. 8°779. Wood's City of Oxf. i (O.H.S. xv), 53. Hearne's Colln. vi …
A History of the County of Oxford
… before the later 18th century, and the vicar reported in 1768 that the parish children were so backward that he had … house, attended by 11 children from the ages of 5 to 9. 71 Wood, Athenae Oxon. i. 636; Wood's Life, i (O.H.S. xix), 151; above, Church. O.R.O., MS. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… boundary, and a tributary stream known as Rowel brook in the north and as Kingsbridge brook in the south formed the … village in 1587. 23 The Six Bells inn, visited by Anthony Wood in 1670, 24 reputedly acquired its name c. 1620 when the … Ref. kindly supplied by Mr. J. Walter, Univ. of Essex. Wood's Life, ii (O.H.S. xxi), 189. Stapleton, Three Oxon. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Manor and other estates Manor and other estates In 1005 Ealdorman Aethelmaer granted 10 hides at YARNTON, … no. 127; Harl. Soc. v. 127-8. Cal. Pat. 1572-5, p. 339; Wood's Life, i (O.H.S. xix), 217-18; Stapleton, Three Oxon. … Yarnton (priv. print. 1981). O.R.O., Dash. XV/i/30-42, 45; Wood's Life, i (O.H.S. xix), 218. For an acct. of Dashwood …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Nonconformity Nonconformity In 1634 the Irish wife of Ellis Perrott, member of a … 185-7. O.R.O., Cal. Oxf. Presentation Deeds II, f. 104. Wood's Life, iii (O.H.S. xxvi), 73. Wood, Athenae Oxon. (3rd edn. 1820), iv. 268; Stapleton, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Yarrow - Zetland Y Yarrow YARROW, a parish, in the county of Selkirk, 9 miles (W.) from Selkirk; … the Gifford water flows, between banks richly crowned with wood and thriving plantations, and comprehending much … 8400 acres, of which 2000 are meadow and hill-pasture, 100 wood and plantations, 200 undivided common, and the remainder …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… OD. The greater part lies on limestone and marls, except in the extreme W. where the higher ground is covered by … Durobrivae shows twelve iron-working sites within the wood and two more to the N. (E. T. Artis, Durobrivae (1828), pl. I). The N. part of the wood where eight of the sites are shown, has been cleared and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Yeading - Yettington Yeading YEADING, a hamlet, in the parish of Hayes, union of Uxbridge, hundred of … containing 222 inhabitants. Yeadon YEADON, a township, in the parish of Guiseley, Upper division of the wapentake of … 18 p., of which 793 acres are arable, 81 pasture, and 42 wood; the soil is strong and rather wet, but the lands …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the area of the Hastings family's inclosed estate depicted in 1625, 18 together with Yelford field to the east which … in the later Middle Ages the Hastings family acquired Boys wood ( c. 72 a.) on the northern edge of the parish, and it … 109 a. of meadow, 4 a. of 'old leys', and 75½ a. of wood and coppice, a total of 407 a.; 51 Boys wood and the …