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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 1:10000 a SP 74 NW, b SP 74 NE, 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 … Northants. Archaeol., 10 (1975), 164; 12 (1977), 222). For Roman Road 1e, Watling Street, see Appendix. Medieval and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Yarlington YARLINGTON Yarlington in 1838 The parish of Yarlington, the derivation of whose name is … a shop and later a dairy were attached and a room opened for a men's club. 97 The Stag's Head remained in business in … a cheesemaker. 6 The tenant at Woolston was required to supply straw to the landlord 7 and in 1905 was forbidden to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Church Church The earliest reference to a church in Yarnton is a … £36 a year, derived from small tithes ( £32), payments for morning prayers ( £2), and rent from the vicarage house ( … church, in the morning and in the evening alternately. 82 For most of his long incumbency Vaughan Thomas was also …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of 1517 accused Rewley abbey in 1489 of inclosing 230 a. for pasture and allowing 6 houses and 4 cottages to become … ploughteams on the demesne, which was presumably farmed by means of services exacted from 20 villeins and 3 bordars who … On the demesne in the late 1270s arable farming and stock raising were both important, and, except for small amounts of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… John Goad, vicar 1646-60, kept small private schools at the vicarage. 49 No other school is known before the later … he had difficulty teaching them the catechism. 50 A school for 6 or 8 children, in existence by 1780, 51 may have been … of £7 a year, devised by Sir Thomas Spencer (d. 1685) for the maintenance of the monuments in the Spencer chapel …
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 … were consulted without success. 45 The tithe awards for Begbroke (1844) and Yarnton (1845) settled the … Mead Lane towards Oxford was already disused because the raising of the river level had made the Thames unfordable. …
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… Local government Local government Yarnton, as part of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit … by Richard, earl of Cornwall. Earl Edmund held courts for his villeins at Yarnton, but free tenants owed suit at … and 1835 both overseers were women. 24 The parish paid for dinners after the Michaelmas and Easter vestry meetings. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Yarrow - Zetland Y Yarrow YARROW, a parish, in the county of Selkirk, 9 miles (W.) from Selkirk; containing, … the English by Sir James Douglas, upon whom, as a reward for his fidelity, that monarch conferred the lands, which at … tracts already inclosed for pasture are capable, if the means were at the disposal of the tenants, of being rendered …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… is a parish and large village 4 m. S.S.W. of Peterborough. The church is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical (1). … altered in pitch, that on the N. probably to provide space for the still existing paintings over the arcade; the two … wall, with rebated jambs and two-centred head, three holes for fixing door, late 13th-century. Monuments and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Yeading - Yettington Yeading YEADING, a hamlet, in the parish of Hayes, union of Uxbridge, hundred of Elthorne, … Incorporated Society, a like sum from the Commissioners for Building Churches, and 400 from the Ripon Diocesan … of the Rector of Guiseley. The tithes have been commuted for 111. There are places of worship for Wesleyans and …