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A History of the County of Sussex
… Yapton 93 lies on the coastal plain south-west of Arundel and c. 2 miles (3 km.) from the sea. In 1881 it had 1,740 a. … boundary a stream and roads, but the configuration of the old western boundary with Barnham and Eastergate suggests … Croft in Main Road. In 1991, despite recent infilling by new houses and closes, 28 the older part of the village was …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… unit of linear measure that largely replaced the ELL. This old measure had been the standard before Edward III and was still in use into the early-modern period. The yard … Yearling [yerlyng; yerelyng; yearlinge] An animal a year old, or in its second year, and used especially of CATTLE, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the R. Tove, below 76 m. above OD, is on Upper Lias Clay and riverine deposits. Bands of limestones are exposed on the steep slopes N.E. of the main village, and in the valley of the stream where the medieval settlement … mentioned are a royal chamber, a chapel, towers, an old chamber and inner and outer gates. It remained in royal …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… It consists of land sloping generally N. between 110 m. and 66 m. above OD, and is entirely on Boulder Clay except … a number of ponds of highly irregular and unusual form. In Old Pond Close (SP 876551) there is one which consists of two … appears to have been called Pottry Pond. Finally, N. of Old Pond Close, adjacent to the Pastures (SP 873552), are two …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… of the same material; the roofs are covered with tiles and stone slates. There appears to have been a church here of … Stanbery). The Nave was re-built in 1862 probably on the old foundations, the chancel drastically restored at the same … chamfered and springing from modern attached shafts with old foliated capitals and moulded bases; the chamfered label …
A History of the County of Somerset
… shape, measuring 2.5 km. from north to south at its widest and 3 km. from east to west. The only natural boundary is a … parish suggest that the southern part of the route was new. The original road to Sherborne may have passed through … kitchen, buttery, cellar, and 13 chambers including the old, new, long, and gallery chambers. 35 When the house was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… day. Usually the whole amount was given to the poor, and from c. 1815 it was used to support the school and clothe … for the better management of the distributions. The new scheme typically reflected Thomas's ability to combine … in grants of up to £ 2; the parish clerk was living in the old schoolhouse and receiving £8 a year from the charity. 75 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and 1161, of Yarnton chapel to Eynsham abbey. 43 Yarnton was … Bowdery, then incumbent, intended to replace it with a new, two-storeyed, four-roomed house, with wash house and … 67 Such a house was built, west of the site of the old one, but apparently not until the incumbency of Richard …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Yarnton of detached parts of Begbroke parish, 14 and the sharing of lot meadows along the Thames, may indicate … seems to have comprised c. 25 a. exclusive of meadow and pasture, 15 and in 1617 a 2-yardland estate contained 44 … to sell off large parts of the estate. By 1573 several new freeholds had been created, including that bought by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Education Hugh Evans, vicar of Yarnton 1579-1618, and John Goad, vicar 1646-60, kept small private schools at … clothes for the schoolchildren. 56 From 1817 a room in the new parish clerk's house at the north-west end of Church Lane … 1875. 58 The school was incorporated with the National Society in 1831. 59 It was attended in 1833 by 59 children on …