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A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In 975 the southern boundary of … great tithes in Charlton (except the corn tithes from the 'home closes') belonged to Cleveland and were commuted to £133 …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… N.E. of Cirencester) As well as the evidence for Romano-British occupation noted below, isolated finds of Roman … points, none of them apparently associated with structures and only one of them ( b) fairly closely located. They are as … Lower Slaughter (1). b. Sherds of coarse Romano-British, mediaeval and later pottery 2 were found under a …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… XCII. Charter by King James VI., confirming all rights and privileges, previously granted to the Burgh and City of Glasgow, and erecting the same into a Royal … as well of all ships as of other vessels of whatever kind, home or foreign, coming in the Clyde, within all the bounds …
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 … in the manufacture of flintglass and the finer sorts of British china, is obtained for exportation from some pits on …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… along the N. side of copse banks between about SP 06651384 and 06741387, where the remains of a terrace 10 ft. wide are … (1) from S.W. (map, p. 25, s.v. Chedworth). (1) Romano-British Settlement (SP 06051390 06151395) in Yanworth Wood … platform, approximately 25 ft. by 17 ft., at SP 06051390, and by building stones (including a rectangular block 2 ft. 5 …
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. and was irregular in shape. 94 Between 1882 and 1891 it was … century including some council houses, 37 and a mobile home park lay to the west in 1994. On the south side of …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… This old measure had been the standard before Edward III and was still in use into the early-modern period. The yard … apply to any of the others. While yarn was produced at home, much was also imported: for example, FLAXEN, HEMP and … greasey, GREY, Hamburgh, HEMP, HEMPEN, HOLLAND, HOSE, IRISH, KERSEY, Riga, ROPE, SAIL CLOTH, SPUN, TURKEY, WOOLLEN, …
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 … in the parish but what was formerly believed to be a British camp on God's Hill is part of a series of medieval … of a park mentioned in 1320 76 may have been that of Home park, recorded in 1344. 77 It lay east of Yarlington …
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 … from a builder's yard and two were sold in 1914 to the British Museum and to the Victoria and Albert Museum … Cheetham, Eng. Medieval Alabasters, 305, 323-4; inf. from British Mus. and V. & A. Mus. O.R.O., MS. d.d. Par. Yarnton d …
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 … freeholds had been created, including that bought by Henry Irish, 65 whose son John's assessment for the subsidy of 1581 …