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Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… N.E. of Cirencester) Disjointed traces of a terrace-way in Streetfold lie along the N. side of copse banks between … J. R. Collis, World Archaeology (1971), 371; and in D. Hill and M. Jesson (ed.), The Iron Age and its Hill-forts (1971), 97103 (nucleated settlements as market …
A History of the County of Sussex
… south-west of Arundel and c. 2 miles (3 km.) from the sea. In 1881 it had 1,740 a. and was irregular in shape. 94 Between 1882 and 1891 it was enlarged by the … 15 Medieval settlement there may have centred on the church, south of which earthworks define roughly rectangular …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Prehistoric and Roman A polished stone axe was found in the parish in the 19th century ( JBAA, 29 (1873), 304; … 165), in the N.E. of the village, immediately N. of the church and Manor Farm. It consists of a large rectangular … furlongs in the N. of Round Hey Field, around Dam Hill Furlong (SP 875582; RAF VAP CPE/ UK/1994, 31858, 21905, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Yarkhill 96 YARKHILL (C.c.) (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 …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Yarlington YARLINGTON Yarlington in 1838 The parish of Yarlington, the derivation of whose … cuts a steep-sided valley from east to west between God's Hill (107 m. (352 ft.)) and Yarlington Sleights (127 m. (452 … 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
… used to support the school and clothe schoolchildren. 72 In 1914, however, the vicar and churchwardens claimed that … the parish, of which £10 was to be distributed to the poor in meat and bread on Christmas Day and on the anniversary of … 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 … the abbey, and it was still occasionally called a chapel in the 14th century, 44 but no reference has been found to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Economic history Economic history The presence in Yarnton of detached parts of Begbroke parish, 14 and the … intensive. Of new farms created, the most notable were Hill farm, whose farmhouse is dated 1731, and, probably, Windmill Hill farm. By the later 18th century, however, the number of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… before the later 18th century, and the vicar reported in 1768 that the parish children were so backward that he had … them the catechism. 50 A school for 6 or 8 children, in existence by 1780, 51 may have been the precursor of a … 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
… boundary, and a tributary stream known as Rowel brook in the north and as Kingsbridge brook in the south formed the … more steeply to over 91 m. in the north-west beyond Spring Hill. North and west of the village the land is Oxford clay, … by a footpath running eastwards from Worton towards Church Lane or Mead Lane. 62 Pre-inclosure maps of Cassington …