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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… (O.S. 6 in. XXXIV, N.E.) Yarkhill is a parish 7 m. E.N.E. of Hereford. The church is the principal monument. Capler Camp in the Parish …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Yarlington YARLINGTON Yarlington in 1838 The parish of Yarlington, the derivation of whose name is … was formerly a green south of the medieval manor house and church. 86 Most houses date from the 18th and 19th centuries …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Sir Thomas Spencer by will dated 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. … for the distributions, which must be received at the church door; careful account was to be kept of the gifts and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Church Church The earliest reference to a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and 1161, of Yarnton chapel to Eynsham abbey. 43 Yarnton was probably a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Education Education Hugh Evans, vicar of Yarnton 1579-1618, and John Goad, vicar 1646-60, kept small private schools at the vicarage. 49 No other school is known before the later … in the new parish clerk's house at the north-west end of Church Lane was used as a schoolroom. 57 The children were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Introduction YARNTON lies 4 miles (6.5 km.) north-west of Oxford, on the north bank of the river Thames. 41 The river forms the … by a footpath running eastwards from Worton towards Church Lane or Mead Lane. 62 Pre-inclosure maps of Cassington …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Local government Local government Yarnton, as part of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit … 21 an anachronism that persisted into the 19th century; church, poor, surveyors', and constables' rates were all so …
A History of the County of Oxford
… cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of Dorchester, later bishop of Lincoln, who eventually … recover Yarnton, but although the abbey's ownership of the church was never challenged it could not regain the manor and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Nonconformity Nonconformity In 1634 the Irish wife of Ellis Perrott, member of a prominent … Oxford were attracting a sufficient following to affect church attendance. In the 1840s Primitive Methodists met in a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… (b)XII, N.W.) Yarpole is a parish and village 4 m. N.N.W. of Leominster. The church is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish …