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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Yazor Y Yaddlethorpe YADDLETHORPE, a hamlet, in the parish of Bottesford, union of Glandford-Brigg, E. division of the wapentake of Manley, parts of Lindsey, county of …
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, Eamont Bridge, Mansion House and the remarkable earthworks of King Arthur's Round Table, Mayburgh and Castlesteads are …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Yapton YAPTON The parish of Yapton 93 lies on the coastal plain south-west of Arundel … 22 Members of the Sparks family, owners of an engineering works, lived at Church House, Yapton Lodge, Grove Lodge, and … have taught in the church during the whole of his 50-year ministry. 56 There were other unlicensed teachers in the mid …
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 … 3 FOOT long, though sometimes by custom for some TEXTILEs of 37 inches. The term appears in all sections of the Dictionary Archive, often in abbreviated forms such as …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… c SP 74 SW, d SP 74 SE) The long, narrow parish, once part of Potterspury, stretches from the R. Tove on the E. boundary … to a little beyond Watling Street (A5) which forms most of the W. boundary. An E.-flowing stream flows along most of … is uncertain (H. M. Colvin, The History of the King's Works, II (1963), 743). In the early 19th century, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Yardley Hastings 67 YARDLEY HASTINGS (OS 1:10000 a SP 85 SW, b SP 85 SE, c SP 85 NW, d SP 85 NE) The roughly … with Bedfordshire which forms its S.E. side. It consists of land sloping generally N. between 110 m. and 66 m. above … is entirely on Boulder Clay except where the down-cutting of a number of N.-flowing streams has exposed narrow bands of …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Yarlington YARLINGTON Yarlington in 1838 The parish of Yarlington, the derivation of whose name is uncertain, 73 … cherubs and baskets of fruit. The house was let to the Ministry of Health in the 1940s. 40 The manor of WOOLSTON … Lammas and the beginning of September, and 112 mowing works owed between 24 June and Lammas. 68 By 1485 assessed …
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 … Movement, 'high and dry' according to bishop Wilberforce; 85 he introduced the practice of administering communion to …
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 … was stated that £12 2 s. a year was received 'in rents and works'. 53 Two free tenants, holding 2 yardlands each in 1279 … 1613) with 60, and James Stone (d. 1640) with 100 animals. 85 Flocks of 10-40 sheep were common and it was unusual to …
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 river forms the southern parish … 26 recorded tenants in 1086, 84 and in 1279 there were 48, 85 probably implying a population larger than any …