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A History of the County of Oxford
… a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and 1161, of Yarnton chapel to Eynsham abbey. 43 Yarnton was … of the then lord, Sir William Spencer, presented. Oxford University presented in 1646 on the grounds that Sir … masonry at the west end of the present nave. Extensive building work in the 13th century included the nave arcade of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Yarnton of detached parts of Begbroke parish, 14 and the sharing of lot meadows along the Thames, may indicate … of Duke's Cut, linking the Thames near Oxey mead to the Oxford canal, 1 s. was collected from every barge for the use … estate were farmed from outside the parish until the building c. 1829 of Parker's Farm north of Sandy Lane. 73 The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Education Hugh Evans, vicar of Yarnton 1579-1618, and John Goad, vicar 1646-60, kept small private schools at … 49 No other school is known before the later 18th century, and the vicar reported in 1768 that the parish children were … children went to Gosford, in Kidlington parish. 68 A new building was erected in Rutten Lane in 1956 to take the two …
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 southern parish boundary, and a tributary stream known as Rowel brook in the north and … 92 The increase was allegedly the consequence of building new cottages for poor families, who then …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Steeple Barton, Cassington, Hampton Gay, Rousham, and Whitehill (in Tackley). 16 That Yarnton was referred to … it was always among the highest. 27 Yarnton's proximity to Oxford on the Woodstock road presumably accounts for the very … parish paid a subscription to the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. Smallpox sufferers were taken to isolation hospitals …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Manor and other estates Manor and other estates In 1005 Ealdorman … it in 1936 to George Kolkhorst, Reader in Spanish at Oxford University. On his death in 1959 it was bought by the … was said in the 19th century that the dancing gallery and building materials had been removed in the 18th to the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 35 The Spencers married into Roman Catholic families, 36 and in 1646 Sir William Spencer (d. 1657) was allegedly … 40 In 1828 John Fordred, a Wesleyan minister from Oxford, applied for a licence for John Preedy's cottage in … mention has been found. 43 In the 1830s Henry Bulteel of Oxford preached at Baptist meetings in Yarnton. Although only …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… 6 in. (a)VII, S.W., (b)XII, N.W.) Yarpole is a parish and village 4 m. N.N.W. of Leominster. The church is the … of two storeys with tiled roofs. The W. part is a rubble building of c. 1500 and formed part of a larger building extending towards the N. The rest of the house is …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Selkirk; containing, with the village of Ettrick-Bridge and part of Yarrowford, 1264 inhabitants. This place, which … their wide estates were divided among four daughters, co-heiresses, of whom the eldest, who possessed the manor of … is the only resident heritor, is a very handsome modern building, pleasantly situated in the vale, and surrounded …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… some 760 hectares, lies E. of the R. Nene, between 40 ft. and 230 ft. above OD. The greater part lies on limestone and … extension has been quarried away. (CUAP, ZF52) b(3) Roman building (TL 06699790; Fig. 121), immediately W. of the … pattern of ditches in the field centred on a Roman building revealed by excavation. This was dug by Oundle …