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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… (b)VII, N.E.) Yanwath and Eamont Bridge is a parish on the N. border of the county immediately S.W. of Penrith. Yanwath Hall, Eamont … sides of a courtyard. The tower is said to have been built by John de Sutton in 1322 and to this date may belong the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Yapton YAPTON The parish of Yapton 93 lies on the coastal plain south-west … including Wicks Farmhouse, to Ford. 98 The present article treats the history of the parish as constituted … through the centre of the parish c. 1821 65 and opened in 1823, 66 but it had little effect on Yapton as …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… yeard; y'd; yd; yarde; eard] A term with several meanings, the most important in the Dictionary Archive being a unit of linear measure that … equivalent) was 36 INCH or 3 FOOT long, though sometimes by custom for some TEXTILEs of 37 inches. The term appears in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 1:10000 a SP 74 NW, b SP 74 NE, c SP 74 SW, d SP 74 SE) The long, narrow parish, once part of Potterspury, stretches from the R. Tove on the E. boundary to a little beyond Watling … higher ground between 95 m. and 108 m. above OD is covered by Boulder Clay. Prehistoric and Roman A stone tool of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 1:10000 a SP 85 SW, b SP 85 SE, c SP 85 NW, d SP 85 NE) The roughly rectangular parish, covering about 1460 hectares, lies against the county boundary with Bedfordshire which forms its S.E. … of Iron Age pottery, associated with an area covered by iron slag, have been found ( BNFAS, 6 (1971), 19, Yardley …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Yarlington YARLINGTON Yarlington in 1838 The parish of Yarlington, the derivation of whose name is … there was no licensed house until the Stag's Head opened in the 1850s in a cottage on the village green. 96 … POOR None known. Ekwall, Eng. Place-Names, 187, 517. This article was completed in 1995. O.S. Map 1/50,000, sheet 183 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Church Church The earliest reference to a church in Yarnton is a … nominee was rejected as unfit and presentation was made by the bishop. 48 After the Dissolution the Crown presented … s.vv. John Tesh, Rob. Coates, Vaughan Thomas. 'Revd. Mr. Cooke' was tutor at Kirtlington in 1757: J. Townsend, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Economic history Economic history The presence in Yarnton of detached parts of Begbroke parish, … were 52 yardlands recorded in the parish in 1279, but by the 17th century there were said to be only 44, 17 … 'thrive here mightily', was grown in the manor park by a Mr. Ward of Northamptonshire, probably William Ward of Little …
A History of the County of Oxford
… YARNTON lies 4 miles (6.5 km.) north-west of Oxford, on the north bank of the river Thames. 41 The river forms the … in the 18th century and early 19th. 43 The route followed by 17th-century perambulations seems not to have been … tip of the parish. The Oxford-Birmingham railway was opened in 1852 with level crossings in Kidlington Lane and …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Yarrow - Zetland Y Yarrow YARROW, a parish, in the county of Selkirk, 9 miles (W.) from Selkirk; containing, … and in the reign of Bruce was recovered from the English by Sir James Douglas, upon whom, as a reward for his … appointed respectively by the Marquess of Tweeddale and Mr. Wauchope: these villages communicate by a handsome bridge …