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A History of the County of Oxford
… Commissioners ruled that the chapel's repair should be the first charge on the bequest. 73 Alderman William Fletcher, by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to the college, which failed to exercise its right at the first opportunity in 1761, and the bishop presented by lapse. … Yarnton's incumbents, was a working farmer. He kept the first known school in the parish and his pupils included the … was in disrepair for much of the 16th century. Rain, first said to be leaking into the church in 1520, 96 was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for the livestock, and calves were not sold during their first year but kept and added to the cows and oxen, or … 20th-century farms. 67 Under the Spencers, who were the first recorded resident lords, Yarnton comprised a large, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… began to live in the parish. Contrary to common belief the first newcomers were not employees of the Cowley motor … farmhouses were probably roofed with stone slate from the first. Apart from the manor house, there are several … a row of rubble and brick buildings with jetties at the first floor, and is probably of the 18th century, with …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 20th by Stephen Howse, and sold by him shortly after the First World War to Edward Harris, whose son Edward was the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… last Tuesday in March, the third Tuesday in June, and the first Tuesday in October; they are well attended, and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… on the N. have nail-head decoration. In the faces of the first pair of capitals are two cuttings, suggesting a former … fireplace, now blocked, has one side removed, but on the first floor, a fireplace has a four-centred head and a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… century. 39 Another road to Avebury, south-west of the first and later called Barrow Lane, had been made by 1795 and … the later 20th century. Yatesbury airfield, in use in the First World War and from 1936, lay south-west of Yatesbury … room was open in 1939, 88 but not in 1994. EDUCATION The first school in Yatesbury was opened in 1832 and had 10 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… original stone staircase with an octagonal newel. On the first floor are some 15th-century slip-tiles with foliage and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… ( c) The Road to Emmaus, three standing male figures, first with white cloak, hood thrown back and staff, second … wall-posts and braces springing from stone corbels. On the first floor there are two early 18th-century panelled doors. … on the N.W. front; flanking the middle window on the first floor of the same front, are plain brick pilasters, and …