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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… Yanwath and Eamont Bridge is a parish on the N. border of the county immediately S.W. of Penrith. Yanwath Hall, … also in the 15th century. Early in the 16th century the property passed to the Dudley family when the upper part of … a settlement with its cross walls and irregular shaped sub-division, but the number and strength of the ramparts are not …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Yapton YAPTON The parish of Yapton 93 lies on the coastal plain south-west of Arundel … the other hand, and the former park (27 a.) remained the property of Lord Willingdon c. 1910, 22 and by 1924 had … by three free men in 1066 and by Warin in 1086. 77 At the division of the d'Aubigny inheritance after 1243 one fee at …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… the most important in the Dictionary Archive being a unit of linear measure that largely replaced the ELL. This old … was still in use into the early-modern period. The yard or VIRGA (the Latin equivalent) was 36 INCH or 3 FOOT long, though sometimes by custom for some TEXTILEs of 37 inches. The term appears in all sections of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and 1161, of Yarnton chapel to Eynsham abbey. 43 Yarnton was probably a daughter church of the abbey, and it was still occasionally called a chapel … College. 72 George Blunt, 1544-7, and William Milton, or Gibbon, 1547-64, were former monks. 73 Hugh Evans, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Economic history Economic history The presence in Yarnton of detached parts of Begbroke parish, 14 and the sharing of … 28 Lot meadows flanking the river were never ploughed or inclosed, and they present a remarkable survival of … A Yarnton grazier, Charles Glanville (d. 1690), also held property at Charltonon-Otmoor and Woodstock, and was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Introduction YARNTON lies 4 miles (6.5 km.) north-west of Oxford, on the north bank of the river Thames. 41 The … in Paternoster field 97 which allegedly showed signs of a division into 13 plots representing the 13 cottages regarded … the south-east. The origin of Spring Hill Farm, a manorial property, is unknown. Architectural evidence indicates that …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of Dorchester, later bishop of Lincoln, who eventually … hide, which presumably merged with the larger estate on or before Odo's death in 1097. Yarnton was held thereafter of … of Adrian Criche. 2 Their son Samuel died seised of the property in 1638, but by 1662 it had passed to the Southby …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… (b)XII, N.W.) Yarpole is a parish and village 4 m. N.N.W. of Leominster. The church is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish Church of St. Leonard (Plate 188) stands in the S. part of the … the main roof are mostly modern, but those of the lantern or bell-chamber are partly old; three sides of the lantern …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Yarrow - Zetland Y Yarrow YARROW, a parish, in the county of Selkirk, 9 miles (W.) from Selkirk; containing, with the … is associated with reminiscences of deeper interest, or more closely identified with the finest strains of … had settled in East Lothian, and acquired extensive landed property. The Gifford family resided for a long period in the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Yarwell 24 YARWELL (Fig. 218) Yarwell is a parish of 490 hectares on the W. of the R. Nene. It has always been … all the larger and fashionable houses were copyhold or freehold; the only house of more than average status built … S.W. is an early 19th-century barn with opposing doors and vertical ventilation slits. The house, of two storeys, attics …