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A History of the County of Oxford
… dated 1684 left a rent charge of £7 a year on Windmill field for repairs to the family chapel, with the residue given to the poor on St. Thomas's day. Usually the whole amount was given to the poor, and … protests the Charity Commissioners ruled that the chapel's repair should be the first charge on the bequest. 73 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the vicarage until the Dissolution. 47 In 1466 the abbey's nominee was rejected as unfit and presentation was made by … lord, C. K. F. Brown, gave the advowson to St. Catherine's College, Oxford. In 1984 St. Catherine's transferred the … C. Eden. A further restoration took place in 1971, by D. King. 15 When the south-west windows of the south aisle were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… because of a threatened uprising. 25 The Privy Council's concern may have slowed the process, but it could not … in the later 19th century, are included in Yarnton's lot meadows; the west part was also lot meadow in the 18th … by the late 16th century. 13 It was presumably in Windmill field, between Cassington Lane and Frogwelldown Lane. In 1835 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… latter was supported in 1797 by a biannual payment of 18 s. from the overseers and by voluntary subscriptions. The … time 13 boys and 14 girls. 54 A rent charge on Windmill field of £7 a year, devised by Sir Thomas Spencer (d. 1685) … in the Spencer chapel or, if not needed there, for Yarnton's poor, 55 was usually spent on clothes for the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… when the Oxford canal took much of the stream bed. 42 Field boundaries separate Yarnton from Cassington on the west … in Yarnton until 1932. 47 That change increased Yarnton's area from 1,644 a. to 1,762 a. (713 ha.). 48 An area known … a small part of the south-east corner of Yarnton west of King's bridge. A house stood c. 1200 on the Yarnton side of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Yarpole 81 YARPOLE (D.b.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)VII, S.W., (b)XII, N.W.) Yarpole is a parish and … century and of trussed-rafter type with five 15th-century king-post trusses; the king-posts have moulded capitals and … b(12). Cottage, on the N. side of the road at Enmore Field, 1,130 yards S.W. of the church. The upper storey …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… is still preserved in the name of a pass called the "Hart's leap," marked by two stones said to have been placed there by the king and his attendants. The parish is of very irregular … of many of the Scottish chieftains who fell at Flodden Field, within six miles of the church. The parish is about …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… and Roman b(1) Double ring ditch (?) (TL 07229721), in the S.E. of the parish, 150 m. W. of Yarwell Mill, on limestone … in NMR). b(2) Ditches (TL 05509846; Fig. 120), immediately S. of Sulehay Cottages, on limestone at 150 ft. above OD. Air … photographs show a rectangular pattern of ditches in the field centred on a Roman building revealed by excavation. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… its site to the W. of the church is indicated by the field names Dovecote Close and Coney Garth. The village was … of a single straight street with regular plots on the S. side, including the manor site and glebe. The layout on … put up in 1782, consists of four trusses with tie beams, king posts, queen struts and staggered purlins and was …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Hill. 30 Flat and well drained, nearly all Yatesbury's land is suitable for ploughing. Large areas of open field lay apparently north, south, and east of the village. … possibly part of the large estate called Calne held by the king from the 9th or 10th century. Agricultural land at Calne …