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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 of Woolhope. Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. John the Baptist stands in the S. part of the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Yarlington YARLINGTON Yarlington in 1838 The parish of Yarlington, the derivation of whose name is uncertain, 73 … was formerly a green south of the medieval manor house and church. 86 Most houses date from the 18th and 19th centuries … into Yeovil, later South Somerset, district in 1974. 47 CHURCH There was a church c. 1100 when it belonged to …
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 … allowed to fall into disrepair because the original terms of the endowment had not been complied with. Despite local … 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 … such as burial dues owed to Eynsham. 45 The benefice was united with Begbroke in 1984, and the joint benefice was in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Education Education Hugh Evans, vicar of Yarnton 1579-1618, and John Goad, vicar 1646-60, kept … in the new parish clerk's house at the north-west end of Church Lane was used as a schoolroom. 57 The children were … with accommodation for 53 children was built in 1875 in Church Lane, 63 and from 1877 it received a parliamentary …
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 … by a footpath running eastwards from Worton towards Church Lane or Mead Lane. 62 Pre-inclosure maps of Cassington … by the laying out of its park. Until the late 18th century Church Lane and Mead Lane remained an alternative to the …
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… Yarnton Local government Local government Yarnton, as part of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from … 21 an anachronism that persisted into the 19th century; church, poor, surveyors', and constables' rates were all so … 22 Vestry meetings were held in the Spencer aisle of the church and were usually attended by c. 6 parishioners. 23 Two …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 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 … Spencer. The house stood 'near to the old one by the church' 83 and part of an older house seems to have been …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Nonconformity Nonconformity In 1634 the Irish wife of Ellis Perrott, member of a prominent Yarnton family, … Oxford were attracting a sufficient following to affect church attendance. In the 1840s Primitive Methodists met in a … were said in 1854 to be 20 dissenters who never came to church, even though their preachers had agreed not to hold …
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 Church of St. Leonard (Plate 188) stands in the S. part of …