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A History of the County of Oxford
… formed the eastern boundary until 1788-9, when the Oxford canal took much of the stream bed. 42 Field boundaries … 49 The name was preserved in the 17th century in Frize or Frice farm and grounds, 50 and that corner of Yarnton was … 92 The increase was allegedly the consequence of building new cottages for poor families, who then 'over-filled the new …
A History of the County of Oxford
… remained quit of shire and hundred after 1281, under its new owner Rewley abbey. 18 The last known meeting of the … financed in the later 16th century and early 17th by malt or malt money received from the parish's farmers. 20 By 1800 … relieved in 1803 were likely to have been travelling to or from the city. 28 In the later 18th century and early 19th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… hide, which presumably merged with the larger estate on or before Odo's death in 1097. Yarnton was held thereafter of … as a service wing at the north-west corner of the new house, which was an imposing structure of coursed rubble … 92 It seems to have been bought in the late 19th century or early 20th by Stephen Howse, and sold by him shortly after …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… the main roof are mostly modern, but those of the lantern or bell-chamber are partly old; three sides of the lantern … part having segmental moulded arches and small shafts cut on the angles, probably 13th-century, stem and base … and of two storeys, timber-framed, and with stone, tile or slate-covered roofs. Most of the buildings have exposed …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… is associated with reminiscences of deeper interest, or more closely identified with the finest strains of … of land offering every facility, by the construction of a canal, for the junction of the two sounds, and consequently … insufficient for the accommodation of the parishioners. A new church was therefore erected in 1837, well adapted for a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… all the larger and fashionable houses were copyhold or freehold; the only house of more than average status built … ballast. Enclosure was in 1778 (NRO, plan 57). In 1881 a new cemetery and mortuary chapel for both Yarwell and … wall-beams and central fireplace with four-centred head cut on the mantel beam. The long E. section was made into a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… although on the east its roughly straight lines link or approach several summits. There is a barrow on it in the … it was turnpiked in 1743; 34 in 17912 it was moved to a new course on lower land c. 200 m. further north. 35 The … and a northsouth road along the parish's western boundary or via either of the Avebury roads. The village could be …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… the middle of the 12th century. At some date in the 16th or 17th century much of the N. wall fell or was re-built; the bell-turret was added or re-built c. … and a thatched roof. In the garden is a large cut yew. (5). Whitehouse, 350 yards N.W. of the church, has …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… of the village. The walls generally are of rubble, more or less coursed, except the E. wall of the chancel, most of … reconstructed, the North and South Chapels being added or re-built, the transepts altered and the aisles of the nave … a moulded string-course below the window-sills and partly cut away on the E. wall. In the W. wall is a late …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… South Transept appears to have been built late in the 13th or early in the 14th century, at which time there was also a … the West Tower was added probably in the same century. The new church of St. Mary was built in 1855, when the old church was partly demolished. In or about 1858 the S. transept was restored or re-built and …