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A History of the County of Somerset
… Yarlington YARLINGTON Yarlington in 1838 The parish of Yarlington, the derivation of whose name is uncertain, 73 … parish suggest that the southern part of the route was new. The original road to Sherborne may have passed through … was formerly a green south of the medieval manor house and church. 86 Most houses date from the 18th and 19th centuries …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Sir Thomas Spencer by will dated 1684 left a rent charge of £7 a year on Windmill field for repairs to the family … for the better management of the distributions. The new scheme typically reflected Thomas's ability to combine … for the distributions, which must be received at the church door; careful account was to be kept of the gifts and …
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 1161, of Yarnton chapel to Eynsham abbey. 43 Yarnton was probably a … Bowdery, then incumbent, intended to replace it with a new, two-storeyed, four-roomed house, with wash house and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Economic history Economic history The presence in Yarnton of detached parts of Begbroke parish, 14 and the sharing of … to sell off large parts of the estate. By 1573 several new freeholds had been created, including that bought by … in the 18th century was woad, heavily labour intensive. Of new farms created, the most notable were Hill farm, whose …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Education Education Hugh Evans, vicar of Yarnton 1579-1618, and John Goad, vicar 1646-60, kept … clothes for the schoolchildren. 56 From 1817 a room in the new parish clerk's house at the north-west end of Church Lane was used as a schoolroom. 57 The children were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Introduction YARNTON lies 4 miles (6.5 km.) north-west of Oxford, on the north bank of the river Thames. 41 The … by a footpath running eastwards from Worton towards Church Lane or Mead Lane. 62 Pre-inclosure maps of Cassington … 92 The increase was allegedly the consequence of building new cottages for poor families, who then 'over-filled the new …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Local government Local government Yarnton, as part of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from … remained quit of shire and hundred after 1281, under its new owner Rewley abbey. 18 The last known meeting of the … 21 an anachronism that persisted into the 19th century; church, poor, surveyors', and constables' rates were all so …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of Dorchester, later bishop of Lincoln, who eventually … recover Yarnton, but although the abbey's ownership of the church was never challenged it could not regain the manor and … as a service wing at the north-west corner of the new house, which was an imposing structure of coursed rubble …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Nonconformity Nonconformity In 1634 the Irish wife of Ellis Perrott, member of a prominent Yarnton family, … 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
… (b)XII, N.W.) Yarpole 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 …