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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 daughter …
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 … 1685) for the maintenance of the monuments in the Spencer chapel or, if not needed there, for Yarnton's poor, 55 was … 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
… Thames. 41 The river forms the southern parish boundary, and a tributary stream known as Rowel brook in the north and … by a footpath running eastwards from Worton towards Church Lane or Mead Lane. 62 Pre-inclosure maps of Cassington … 6/958/19. Thomas, Night March of Chas. I, 22 n.; Ch. and Chapel, 1851, no. 506. The name is said to signify a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Steeple Barton, Cassington, Hampton Gay, Rousham, and Whitehill (in Tackley). 16 That Yarnton was referred to … 21 an anachronism that persisted into the 19th century; church, poor, surveyors', and constables' rates were all so … 41 In 1834 Yarnton became part of Woodstock poor law union. In 1932 it was transferred to Witney rural district, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Manor and other estates Manor and other estates In 1005 Ealdorman … recover Yarnton, but although the abbey's ownership of the church was never challenged it could not regain the manor and … i (O.H.S. xix), 217. Hearne's Colln. vi. 187; Ch. and Chapel, 1851, no. 506. G. Nares, 'Yarnton Manor', Country …
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 … 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
… 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 principal monument. Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish Church of St. Leonard (Plate 188) stands in the S. part of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Selkirk; containing, with the village of Ettrick-Bridge and part of Yarrowford, 1264 inhabitants. This place, which … its present name was acquired from the removal of the church to the banks of the river Yarrow, about the middle of … in the eastern part of the parish, was an ancient chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas, of which there exist no …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the R. Nene. It has always been a chapelry of Nassington, and served by a curate. Yarwell is not named in Domesday Book … (NRO, W(A) 4.XVI.5; 6.XII); its site to the W. of the church is indicated by the field names Dovecote Close and … 1778 (NRO, plan 57). In 1881 a new cemetery and mortuary chapel for both Yarwell and Nassington were built to designs …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… several summits. There is a barrow on it in the south and, also in the south, it was marked by many stones and … century the site had apparently been acquired by Calne church. Two farmsteads of the manor which belonged to that … was licensed for Baptist meetings, 83 and a small Wesleyan chapel, built in 1839, 84 was open in 1855. 85 From 1874 …