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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… ( JBAA, 29 (1873), 304; lost), and a flint axe in 1966 (at SP 875581). A Roman coin was found before 1900 (NM … Hastings (23) Dam Fig. 165 Yardley Hastings (24) Site of manor house b(20) Roman Settlement (SP 855529), S.W. of … 4 (1971), 310; RAF VAP CPE/UK/1926, 40067). d(24) Site Of Manor House (?) (SP 866571; Fig. 165), in the N.E. of the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… triangular in shape, measuring 2.5 km. from north to south at its widest and 3 km. from east to west. The only natural … boundaries are marked by roads. 74 The boundaries of the manor, which by the 18th century were conterminous with the … 84 Settlement consists of Yarlington village, Woolston Manor farm in the valley on the southern boundary, and a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the advowson had been bought by John Durant, lord of the manor, 51 and it descended with the manor thereafter. In 1644 Richard Brainthwaite, grandfather … it to the college, which failed to exercise its right at the first opportunity in 1761, and the bishop presented by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and tenant land was leased as three farms, one of them the manor farm, another known as Alleluia farm. Half the parish … contained 13 strips, the strips and shots being marked at their ends by pegs or stones. In each mead an area known … have been reorganized on Rewley abbey's acquisition of the manor in 1281: the demesne meadow seems to have been improved …
A History of the County of Oxford
… not to have been recorded, 44 and in 1811 the muniments at Blenheim and 'early maps' belonging to Sir Henry Dashwood … in the early 17th century by the rebuilding of Yarnton Manor and by the laying out of its park. Until the late 18th … railway line, opened in 1853, passed south of the manor park and under the Cassington road. A dispute between …
A History of the County of Oxford
… honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit at the hundred court of Wootton by Richard, earl of Cornwall. Earl Edmund held courts for his villeins at Yarnton, but free tenants owed suit at the honorial court … centre, perhaps related to its status as a demesne manor. 17 Yarnton remained quit of shire and hundred after …
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, formerly his cousin Godwin's, to his newly …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… moulded trefoiled head and moulded gable with foliations at base and apex, projecting halfquatrefoiled drain, c. 1300. … round drain, 14th-century. ConditionGood. Secular a(2). Manor House and outbuilding, 100 yards S.E. of the church. … tenements, 50 yards N.W. of (3), has a later extension at the N. end. a(5). Cottage, 20 yards W. of (4). a(6). Tudor …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… for his fidelity, that monarch conferred the lands, which at the same time he erected into a free royalty. On the … of their growth. There are also some remarkably fine trees at Hangingshaw, among which are a plane and a beech of very … co-heiresses, of whom the eldest, who possessed the manor of Yester, conveyed that property to the Hay family, by …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… attributed with two mills, one of which may have been at Yarwell. In the Middle Ages the village was in Rockingham … to Nassington in 1869. By the late 15th century the manor had passed to Sir Guy Wolston, and from him it passed … Earls of Westmorland, all of whom lived at Apethorpe. The manor house seems to have disappeared by the end of the 16th …