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A History of the County of Somerset
… Yarlington YARLINGTON Yarlington in 1838 The parish of Yarlington, the derivation of whose name is … 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 … of the river Cam in the south-east; parts of the eastern and western boundaries are marked by roads. 74 The boundaries …
A History of the County of Oxford
… YARNTON lies 4 miles (6.5 km.) north-west of Oxford, on the north bank of the river Thames. 41 The river forms the southern parish boundary, and a tributary stream known as Rowel brook in the north andand were regularly repaired until 1834. 60 In 1940 the French Protestant School in Soho, London, was evacuated to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government Local government Yarnton, as part of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit … in Steeple Barton, Cassington, Hampton Gay, Rousham, and Whitehill (in Tackley). 16 That Yarnton was referred to … in 1810, but it began to rise again towards the end of the French wars. Expenditure per head of population was higher in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… YARWELL (Fig. 218) Yarwell is a parish of 490 hectares on the W. of the R. Nene. It has always been a chapelry of Nassington, and served by a curate. Yarwell is not named in Domesday Book … those of the side chapels are flat-pitched; in 1804 James French was paid 6. 10.0 for thatching the chancel (church …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… YATESBURY Yatesbury village stands 7 km. east of Calne. 27 The parish, 1,674 a. (677 ha.), was absorbed by Cherhill … several summits. There is a barrow on it in the south and, also in the south, it was marked by many stones and mounds which survived in the later 19th century. 29 For …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) YIELDING, or Yelden ( St. Mary), a parish, in the hundred of Stodden, union and county of Bedford, 4 miles (E.) from Higham-Ferrers; … by Cedda, who held it till the return of Wilfrid from France, whither he had been sent for consecration, and where …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… York Castle THE DEFENCES OF THE CITY OF YORK AN INVENTORY Note. The … area (W. of the Ouse), the Central area (between the Ouse and the Foss), and the Walmgate area (E. of the Foss). In the … to that of keeps at Amblny (Aisne) and tampes (Essonne) in France and of the larger and once loftier keep at Pontefract. …
Survey of London Monograph
… HERALD Spelman thought that York herald was originally the officer of Edmund of Langley, created Duke of York in … to John Water alias Yorke, herald, as fee of his office and for services to Richard III, his predecessors and … reapp d York 25 September 1486; 1486 and 1488 sent to France; 1493 Garter mission to Duke of Calabria; d. 28 March …
Survey of London
… York House CHAPTER 6: YORK HOUSE The York Water Gate (see pp. 5960) in the Victoria Embankment … surviving relic of the great houses which in the medival and Renaissance periods bordered the Strand between the … hired in turn by the Spanish, the Russian, the Danish, the French and the Portuguese Ambassadors, but so much had to be …
Survey of London
… York Place CHAPTER 1: YORK PLACE Towards the end of the twelth century Richard of Ely (also known as Richard FitzNigel or FitzNeale), Bishop of London, and author of the famous Dialogus de Scaccario, was in … disguised, "the fyrst was the kyng him selfe and the French quene," attended by twelve knights, also disguised, …
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