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A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Church Church The earliest reference to a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and … Thomas was initially a supporter of the Oxford Movement, 'high and dry' according to bishop Wilberforce; 85 he …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was the tenant-at-will of Fretes croft, who paid the high rent of 1 mark but no services; the croft may well have … 70 A likely consequence was a reduction in the relatively high number of landless labourers observed in the 16th … arable crop, with barley and oats also grown, and a high percentage of root crops. 3 The lavish household …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the new parish clerk's house at the north-west end of Church Lane was used as a schoolroom. 57 The children were … with accommodation for 53 children was built in 1875 in Church Lane, 63 and from 1877 it received a parliamentary … Primary School, with seven classrooms and a hall; the Church Lane school became a private house. In 1983 c. 130 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to the river meadows, sometimes caused inconvenience as high as the village. When the Thames Navigation Commission … paper mill: the river level was kept permanently high, so that low-lying ground was almost always flooded and … by a footpath running eastwards from Worton towards Church Lane or Mead Lane. 62 Pre-inclosure maps of Cassington …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 21 an anachronism that persisted into the 19th century; church, poor, surveyors', and constables' rates were all so … increased its dinner allowance from 20 s. to the unusually high figure of 30 s., and set an upper limit as high as £3 10 s. 25 In 1776 Yarnton spent £32 on poor relief, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… recover Yarnton, but although the abbey's ownership of the church was never challenged it could not regain the manor and … Spencer. The house stood 'near to the old one by the church' 83 and part of an older house seems to have been …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Oxford were attracting a sufficient following to affect church attendance. In the 1840s Primitive Methodists met in a … were said in 1854 to be 20 dissenters who never came to church, even though their preachers had agreed not to hold …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… is a parish and village 4 m. N.N.W. of Leominster. The church is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish Church of St. Leonard (Plate 188) stands in the S. part of … 14th century; the South Porch was added soon after. The church was restored in 1864, when the Chancel seems to have …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… its present name was acquired from the removal of the church to the banks of the river Yarrow, about the middle of … near them till lately stood the picturesque ruins of the church of St. Mary. There are also several lakes of less … a manse, and the glebe is valued at 34. 10. per annum. The church erected in 1640, and thoroughly repaired in 1826, is a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… not alter its main N.W.-S.E. alignment. It is up to 1 m. high and 5 m.-6 m. wide with side ditches 0.5 m. deep and 4 …