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A History of the County of Somerset
… the western boundary at 70 m. (230 ft.). In the east a small hill at Seamark 77 wood (143 m. (468 ft.)) separates … and 19th centuries and are of stone with tiled roofs. A small 16thcentury house, converted to agricultural use, stood … which eventually prevailed and the three daughters or their heirs were declared coheirs. The manor was then held …
A History of the County of Oxford
… assessed at 20 s. in 1254. 58 By 1535 the vicar had the small tithes, and the value of the living had risen to c. £9. … College. 72 George Blunt, 1544-7, and William Milton, or Gibbon, 1547-64, were former monks. 73 Hugh Evans, … chancel arch leans to the north, apparently because a tie beam in the chancel roof has been removed. 95 In the 14th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 28 Lot meadows flanking the river were never ploughed or inclosed, and they present a remarkable survival of … held freely, probably 35 villein yardlands, and a small amount of cottage land. The 31 villein yardlanders paid … and stock raising were both important, and, except for small amounts of grain used to feed workers and make payments …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Yarnton 1579-1618, and John Goad, vicar 1646-60, kept small private schools at the vicarage. 49 No other school is … difficulty teaching them the catechism. 50 A school for 6 or 8 children, in existence by 1780, 51 may have been the … for the maintenance of the monuments in the Spencer chapel or, if not needed there, for Yarnton's poor, 55 was usually …
A History of the County of Oxford
… east of Yarnton in the area known as the Marshes, and a small detached close, Oxford Close (3 a.), lay north-east of … known as Fries, lying mainly in Water Eaton, included a small part of the south-east corner of Yarnton west of King's … 49 The name was preserved in the 17th century in Frize or Frice farm and grounds, 50 and that corner of Yarnton was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… financed in the later 16th century and early 17th by malt or malt money received from the parish's farmers. 20 By 1800 … relieved in 1803 were likely to have been travelling to or from the city. 28 In the later 18th century and early 19th … initially, at a cost to the parish of £8- £12 a year, a small proportion of total poor relief expenditure. In 1802-3 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… hide, which presumably merged with the larger estate on or before Odo's death in 1097. Yarnton was held thereafter of … begun in 1897 under the direction of Thomas Garner. 88 The balance of the east elevation was restored by building a … rear in the 18th, but was still described in 1797 as a 'small farmhouse'. It was said in 1853 to have been 'lately …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… the main roof are mostly modern, but those of the lantern or bell-chamber are partly old; three sides of the lantern … splayed lower part having segmental moulded arches and small shafts cut on the angles, probably 13th-century, stem … storey projects at the E. end of the W. wing and the base-beam of the gable is moulded; the framing at this end is …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… is associated with reminiscences of deeper interest, or more closely identified with the finest strains of … land, or sandbank, thrown up by opposite currents of two small streams; the larger lake is thirty fathoms, and the … was destroyed by an accidental fire in 1840. There are small villages at Yarrowford and Ettrick-Bridge, chiefly …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… found only 20 cm. below the ground surface. No tessellated or tiled floors were uncovered but pottery of the 2nd and 3rd … with stone-paved floors was discovered together with a small pillared hypocaust and quantities of 'late Roman … face, and a cremation burial, perhaps a child, in a small stone-lined cist, is also recorded. Associated with the …