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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the county boundary with Bedfordshire which forms its S.E. side. It consists of land sloping generally N. between … here (NM Records). d(2) Enclosure (SP 850551), 700 m. W.S.W. of (1) in a similar situation. Air photographs (in NMR) … Hastings (23) Dam Fig. 165 Yardley Hastings (24) Site of manor house b(20) Roman Settlement (SP 855529), S.W. of …
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 … (1). Parish Church of St. John the Baptist stands in the S. part of the parish. The walls are of local sandstone … N.E., is a dry ditch with a right-angled bend. (3). Showle Court, house, outbuilding and moat, 1,160 yards N.N.E. of the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… boundaries are marked by roads. 74 The boundaries of the manor, which by the 18th century were conterminous with the … cuts a steep-sided valley from east to west between God's Hill (107 m. (352 ft.)) and Yarlington Sleights (127 m. … manor in the later Middle Ages, one incorporating a court leet. 36 Estreats survive for the 1540s, when the court …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the vicarage until the Dissolution. 47 In 1466 the abbey's nominee was rejected as unfit and presentation was made by … the advowson had been bought by John Durant, lord of the manor, 51 and it descended with the manor thereafter. In 1644 … lord, C. K. F. Brown, gave the advowson to St. Catherine's College, Oxford. In 1984 St. Catherine's transferred the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and tenant land was leased as three farms, one of them the manor farm, another known as Alleluia farm. Half the parish … because of a threatened uprising. 25 The Privy Council's concern may have slowed the process, but it could not … in the later 19th century, are included in Yarnton's lot meadows; the west part was also lot meadow in the 18th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Yarnton until 1932. 47 That change increased Yarnton's area from 1,644 a. to 1,762 a. (713 ha.). 48 An area known … part of the south-east corner of Yarnton west of King's bridge. A house stood c. 1200 on the Yarnton side of the … in the early 17th century by the rebuilding of Yarnton Manor and by the laying out of its park. Until the late 18th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit at the hundred court of Wootton by Richard, earl of Cornwall. Earl Edmund … were, unusually, expected to contribute to the lord's scutage. 15 The 'hundred' of Yarnton, so called in 1279, … centre, perhaps related to its status as a demesne manor. 17 Yarnton remained quit of shire and hundred after …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Manor and other estates Manor and other estates In 1005 … granted 10 hides at YARNTON, formerly his cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was … later bishop of Lincoln, who eventually returned the abbey's other estates but not, apparently, Yarnton. In 1086 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Yarpole 81 YARPOLE (D.b.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)VII, S.W., (b)XII, N.W.) Yarpole is a parish and … round drain, 14th-century. ConditionGood. Secular a(2). Manor House and outbuilding, 100 yards S.E. of the church. … and N. The chimney-stack has two diagonal shafts. a(28). Court House, on the N.E. side of the road, 60 yards S.E. of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… is still preserved in the name of a pass called the "Hart's leap," marked by two stones said to have been placed there … and Teviotdale, and patronage of the Crown the minister's stipend is 233. 8. 1., with a manse, and the glebe is … co-heiresses, of whom the eldest, who possessed the manor of Yester, conveyed that property to the Hay family, by …