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A History of the County of Oxford
… 58 lies 3 miles (4.75 km.) south of Witney and 3 miles east of Bampton, 59 The village, noted for its … including assertions that there were two Yelfords, West and East, the former belonging in some way to Bampton, the … sites in the village. 82 Water was obtained from shallow wells, and in a field north of the village there was an …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yelford Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In 1086 Walter son of Ponz held of the … king 3 hides in YELFORD, together with estates in Westwell and Alwoldsbury (in Alvescot or Clanfield) and a piece of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Watling Street. It lies on undulating land between 95 m. and 145 m. above OD and except in the extreme W. of the parish where Lower Lias … may relate to an undocumented settlement of Shenley (3) and the settlement remains (4) N. of Yelvertoft itself, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Vaenor Isav Y Yerbeston YERBESTON, a parish, in the union and hundred of Narberth, county of Pembroke, South Wales, 4 … situated near the turnpike-road from Pembroke to Narberth, and comprises a small extent of land, all inclosed and cultivated. Culm is found in some parts of it, but it is …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Mary), a parish, in the hundred of Stodden, union and county of Bedford, 4 miles (E.) from Higham-Ferrers; … King's-ct. Discharged Rectory 8 0 0 87 Master of Wells Hospital, the impropriator 685 Holy Trinity, Micklegate … village is pleasantly situated on the road from Buxton to Bath, about a mile from the river Trent. The weaving of tape …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… of shaped wood designed to fit across a person's back and shoulders, with a chain hanging from each end onto which a PAIL could be attached and thus carried with less strain. OED earliest date of use: … to clothiers in towns like Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield and Leeds. There the cloths were fulled, frizzed and perhaps …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… area (W. of the Ouse), the Central area (between the Ouse and the Foss), and the Walmgate area (E. of the Foss). In the following … historical resume, first the two castles are described and then the city defences, following the circuit S.W. of the …
Survey of London
… surviving relic of the great houses which in the medival and Renaissance periods bordered the Strand between the Temple and Charing Cross. a York House, to which the York Water Gate … was originally the town house of the Bishops of Norwich and, like its easterly neighbour, Durham House, it fronted …
Survey of London
… as Richard FitzNigel or FitzNeale), Bishop of London, and author of the famous Dialogus de Scaccario, was in … the keeper of the Wardrobe. In 1309 he became Bishop of Bath and Wells. He died in 1329. Cal. of Letter-books preserved at the …
Survey of London
… York Road CHAPTER 7 - YORK ROAD [See plates 25, 26 and 27.] The first Waterloo Bridge Act contained a clause for … Lambeth. Except for a fringe of cottages along Narrow Wall and for Phelps' soap factory, 91 which stood east of Narrow Wall (i.e. on ground between Belvedere Road and York Road and adjoining north on Waterloo Road) the land …