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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… latter part of the last century this has been their usual place of sepulture. Yapham YAPHAM, a chapelry, in the parish … from London; containing 1511 inhabitants. This place, in old documents called Yarome, Yarum, and Yareham, formed part … 135; the glebe comprises 24 acres. The church has a very old monument of granite; the inscription is illegible. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… has been widened on the E. side, four of the ribs being old and two modern. The approach on the N. has been widened … 14th-century doorway with a two-centred head; the door is old and has two heavy strap-hinges. The kitchen fireplace has …
A History of the County of Sussex
… boundary a stream and roads, but the configuration of the old western boundary with Barnham and Eastergate suggests … before c. 1813, when parkland extended south of Yapton Place as far as the line of the future Portsmouth-Arundel … house with a later west wing lying north-south. The Old Malthouse and Laburnum cottages at the west end of the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… unit of linear measure that largely replaced the ELL. This old measure had been the standard before Edward III and was … Yearling [yerlyng; yerelyng; yearlinge] An animal a year old, or in its second year, and used especially of CATTLE, … obtained with either YOUNG FUSTIC (not very satisfactory), OLD FUSTIC, WELD or QUERCITRON. In the eighteenth century in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Ferrers was granted a licence to crenellate his dwelling place of Le Morende. In 1363 the manor passed to the Crown … mentioned are a royal chamber, a chapel, towers, an old chamber and inner and outer gates. It remained in royal …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… a number of ponds of highly irregular and unusual form. In Old Pond Close (SP 876551) there is one which consists of two … appears to have been called Pottry Pond. Finally, N. of Old Pond Close, adjacent to the Pastures (SP 873552), are two … Newey, Ausway, Lower and Round Hey Fields. There were old enclosures all round the village. Around The Pastures (SP …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Stanbery). The Nave was re-built in 1862 probably on the old foundations, the chancel drastically restored at the same … chamfered and springing from modern attached shafts with old foliated capitals and moulded bases; the chamfered label …
A History of the County of Somerset
… kitchen, buttery, cellar, and 13 chambers including the old, new, long, and gallery chambers. 35 When the house was … a deer leap in the 18th century. 78 It was known as the Old park in 1540 79 and thereafter was divided into large … 16 CHARITIES FOR THE POOR None known. Ekwall, Eng. Place-Names, 187, 517. This article was completed in 1995. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in grants of up to £ 2; the parish clerk was living in the old schoolhouse and receiving £8 a year from the charity. 75 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 67 Such a house was built, west of the site of the old one, but apparently not until the incumbency of Richard … cleaning in 1913 by F. C. Eden. A further restoration took place in 1971, by D. King. 15 When the south-west windows of … copy in Bodl. G.A. Oxon. 8°147 (19); W. Hobart Bird, Old Oxon. Chs. 172; Pevsner, Oxon. 864-7. There are …