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A History of the County of Oxford
… 1684 left a rent charge of £7 a year on Windmill field for repairs to the family chapel, with the residue given to the poor on St. Thomas's day. Usually the whole amount was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Church Church The earliest reference to a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 … of an earlier tower, but churchwardens' payments for bell repairs indicate that there may have been one. 99 The … an open timber roof, which was restored. 19 Extensive repairs were made to the exterior stonework of the church in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… set of fields. The medieval yardland in Yarnton seems to have comprised c. 25 a. exclusive of meadow and pasture, … parish in 1279, but by the 17th century there were said to be only 44, 17 presumably because of the loss of arable … the 1520s the inclosed former demesne and tenant land was leased as three farms, one of them the manor farm, another …
A History of the County of Oxford
… weekdays. Pupils, who stayed at school from the ages of 4 to 10, paid ½ d. a week, the vicar and the parish each paid … Alderman Fletcher had in 1823 given an annuity of £5 for repairs to the parish clerk's house, any surplus to be used for the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… route followed by 17th-century perambulations seems not to have been recorded, 44 and in 1811 the muniments at Blenheim and 'early maps' belonging to Sir Henry Dashwood were consulted without success. 45 The … settled the boundaries. 46 Oxford Close was transferred to Yarnton, but the larger detached area was not incorporated …
A History of the County of Oxford
… granted 10 hides at YARNTON, formerly his cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was taken … by Abbot Columban, but 9 1/2 hides at Yarnton, though said to be Eynsham's, were held of the bishop by Roger d'Ivri. The … Paternoster farm, part of the quarter share of the manor. Leased to the Minn family from the later 17th century and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… The church was restored in 1864, when the Chancel seems to have been re-built, the North Aisle was added, and the S. … two side ones pointed and having the mullions carried up to the two-centred head to form the middle light. The North Aisle is modern, but …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… present name was acquired from the removal of the church to the banks of the river Yarrow, about the middle of the … of the Douglas family in 1455, the lands became forfeited to the crown, and part of them were granted to Sir Walter Scott, ancestor of the dukes of Buccleuch, in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… regarded as part of Yarwell until it was transferred to Nassington in 1869. By the late 15th century the manor had passed to Sir Guy Wolston, and from him it passed to the Earls of Westmorland, all of whom lived at Apethorpe. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in 1377. 32 In 1801 the population was 234. It had fallen to 218 by 1811 and had risen to its peak at 274 by 1831. For most of the period 18311901 … was in decline, the sharpest fall being from 211 in 1881 to 148 in 1891. Yatesbury had only 129 inhabitants in 1901, …