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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… present name was acquired from the removal of the church to the banks of the river Yarrow, about the middle of the … and in the reign of Bruce was recovered from the English by Sir James Douglas, upon whom, as a reward for his … are found large trees, though scarcely a shrub is now to be seen. The arable land is chiefly near the shore; but it is …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… photographs which are available but its outer ditch can be seen as a crop-mark, 30 m. in diam. with an inner ditch 25 … on limestone at 150 ft. above OD. Air photographs show a set of ditches of no coherent form. The S. extension has been … No other details are known. From the field immediately to the W. a complete Roman pot and some Iron Age sherds have …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… It has always been a chapelry of Nassington, and served by a curate. Yarwell is not named in Domesday Book but was … regarded as part of Yarwell until it was transferred to Nassington in 1869. By the late 15th century the manor had … a parapeted E. gable. The late 15th-century E. window is set within the splayed jamb of a former window, the sill of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in 1377. 32 In 1801 the population was 234. It had fallen to 218 by 1811 and had risen to its peak at 274 by 1831. For … by 1795 and possibly by 1683. 40 The London road could be reached from the village via the Avenue and a northsouth … 66 and each of two of the manors in the parish had its own set of open fields and the third probably had. 67 The arable …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… panel of the Resurrection, with remains of colour and set in a late 17th-century carved frame. Screen: from the old … was added or re-built c. 1600 and there appears to have been a S. porch. The E. wall was re-built in 1704. … Architectural DescriptionThe Chancel and Nave (41 ft. by 15 ft.) have an ashlar-faced E. wall of 1704 containing a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… and the aisles of the nave widened, as is indicated by the partial blocking of a lancet-window in the W. wall of … and S. chapels altered in pitch, that on the N. probably to provide space for the still existing paintings over the … In S. chapelon E. wall, two, ( a) semi-octagonal capital, set in wall, with carved rosettes, traces of red colour, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… material. The roofs are tiled. The South Transept appears to have been built late in the 13th or early in the 14th … 13th or early 14th-century. Piscina: In transept re-set in S. wall, recess with trefoiled ogee head, … The house is of early type, but nothing remains which can be definitely dated before the end of the 16th or the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… affording tolerable pasture; the surface is watered by copious springs, and the substratum abounds with good … is pleasingly diversified. A district church dedicated to St. John was erected in 1843, at an expense of 2000, by … time of Edward III., and a curious monument supposed to be in memory of a benefactor to the parish. There is a place …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 59 The village, noted for its seclusion, 60 is accessible by a single narrow lane. In 1876 the parish contained 336 a., … medieval extent was greater, the eastern part being lost to Hardwick (then in Ducklington parish) for reasons … comprised c. 310 a. worked from Yelford Manor, 64 came to be regarded as the whole parish, and although much of the …