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A History of the County of Oxford
… rebuilding of Yarnton Manor and by the laying out of its park. Until the late 18th century Church Lane and Mead Lane … railway line, opened in 1853, passed south of the manor park and under the Cassington road. A dispute between the … scattered up and down on the wastes' when the Spencer estate was divided and sold after 1685. 96 Traces of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… be Eynsham's, were held of the bishop by Roger d'Ivri. The estate included 1 hide formerly held freely by Maino. Odo, … of the half hide, which presumably merged with the larger estate on or before Odo's death in 1097. Yarnton was held … but by 1718 it was in 'ruinated condition' and the park had 'lately been destroyed'. 84 Demolition of the south …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… of the celebrated and unfortunate traveller, Mungo Park. The river, whose pastoral beauties have been so sweetly …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… The land of Yatesbury was possibly part of the large estate called Calne held by the king from the 9th or 10th … claimed to hold Yatesbury as part of the church's estate. He was disputing the right of Alfred of Epaignes, who … was at least partially successful: it is probable that the estate was divided and that demesne in the centre of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of ease. The Hon. Robert Boyle, in 1699, bequeathed an estate now producing more than 70 per annum, for teaching 26 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… which in 1818 comprised those from W. J. Lenthall's estate (estimated at 315 a.), from Wadham College's Yelford …
A History of the County of Oxford
… covered much of the area of the Hastings family's inclosed estate depicted in 1625, 18 together with Yelford field to … 15 yardlands. 21 In the 17th century the former Walwyn estate comprised 2 yardlands 22 and the Edwards (later Wadham … the farm formed part of a larger unit worked from Barley Park farm in Ducklington. In 1949, when the Weekses bought …
A History of the County of Oxford
… later Middle Ages, Yelford's west part became an inclosed estate in single ownership, leaving other holdings to the … responsibility of Hardwick's officers, while the inclosed estate, held entirely by the Hastings family, was assessed … after John Hastings, usually taxed only for his inclosed estate, acquired some open-field land with the Walwyn …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Courts for the Hastings manor presumably ceased when the estate came into single ownership, 87 but in the early 17th … the holdings, mostly open-field, east of the Hastings estate. 91 In the 1840s, and presumably until inclosure in 1853, tenants of Wadham College's Yelford estate, descended from the Grey manor, were still attending …
A History of the County of Oxford
… notably Southrop. 15 Later Walter's Domesday estate, sometimes described as the honor of Hastings, was … Simon de Montfort, suffered temporary confiscation of his estate after the battle of Evesham in 1265. 29 In 1279 he … 1949, Manor farm being purchased by F. E. Parker of Barley Park, Ducklington, who sold the manor house to B. Babington …