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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Twyford, lathe of Aylesford, W. division of Kent, 6 miles (S. W.) from Maidstone; containing 2467 inhabitants. The … streams stands the village, approached by a long narrow stone bridge: another bridge in the parish is called Twyford … Chapter of Hereford; impropriator, the Master of Ledbury Hospital. The great tithes have been commuted for 125, and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… and Eamont Bridge 113 YANWATH and EAMONT BRIDGE (D.b.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)III, S.E., (b)VII, N.E.) Yanwath and Eamont … ground-storey of the tower has a segmental barrelvault of stone. The room on the first floor has a 16th-century … covered with turf. Within the enclosure is a standing stone (Plate 2) the greatest girth of which is 18 ft. and …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Acres. Another terrace-way approaches Monument (1) from S.W. (map, p. 25, s.v. Chedworth). (1) Romano-British Settlement (SP 06051390 … buildings noted above and on arable ground immediately S. of the wood, include coins (one of Crispus), 4th-century …
A History of the County of Sussex
… earliest known secular building in the village is Coachman's cottage in Church Lane, a probably 16th-century … and a pedimented doorcase or porch, and the ends marked by stone quoins. The irregularity of the west front suggests … 1220 or earlier), 49 Hardham priory (by 1534), 50 and the Hospital of St. John (from before 1290). 51 Chichester …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… OD is covered by Boulder Clay. Prehistoric and Roman A stone tool of unknown form is said to have been found at SP … in NMR) d(2) Moat (?) (SP 761448), lay immediately S. of Moor End Road, on Boulder Clay at 102 m. above OD. The … King's Works, II (1963), 743). In the early 19th century, stone-robbing revealed foundations of a rectangular building …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the county boundary with Bedfordshire which forms its S.E. side. It consists of land sloping generally N. between … intensive field-walking. Prehistoric and Roman A polished stone axe was found in the parish in the 19th century ( JBAA, … conjoined enclosures. A large area of dark soil containing stone, iron slag and Iron Age pottery has been found at the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Yarkhill 96 YARKHILL (C.c.) (O.S. 6 in. XXXIV, N.E.) Yarkhill is a parish 7 m. E.N.E. of … of the same material; the roofs are covered with tiles and stone slates. There appears to have been a church here of c. … vestryon external N. wall, (1) to Francis Stedman, 1646, stone tablet with moulded and enriched surround. In …
A History of the County of Somerset
… cuts a steep-sided valley from east to west between God's Hill (107 m. (352 ft.)) and Yarlington Sleights (127 m. … houses date from the 18th and 19th centuries and are of stone with tiled roofs. A small 16thcentury house, converted … a square three-bayed house of two storeys built of local stone under a slate roof. North of the house is a wall with …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the vicarage until the Dissolution. 47 In 1466 the abbey's nominee was rejected as unfit and presentation was made by … was buried at the west end of the church in 1827 in a stone coffin from the site of Godstow abbey. 25 The lid bears … of the church stands the lower half of a highly ornamented stone cross, probably of the 14th century. 31 It is similar …
A History of the County of Oxford
… because of a threatened uprising. 25 The Privy Council's concern may have slowed the process, but it could not … in the later 19th century, are included in Yarnton's lot meadows; the west part was also lot meadow in the 18th … were those of Robert Phipps (d. 1613) with 60, and James Stone (d. 1640) with 100 animals. 85 Flocks of 10-40 sheep …