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A History of the County of Oxford
… 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 from c. 1815 it was used to support the school and clothe …
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 … 1965 the then lord, C. K. F. Brown, gave the advowson to St. Catherine's College, Oxford. In 1984 St. Catherine's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Economic history Economic history The presence in Yarnton of detached parts of Begbroke parish, 14 and the sharing of lot meadows along the Thames, may indicate … a single day on successive Mondays following the feast of St. Peter and St. Paul (29 June) in the order Oxey, West …
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 the vicarage. 49 No other school is known before the later … £3 from the Fletcher benefaction and £1 from the bishop of St. Asaph, an absentee landowner. 61 An evening school …
A History of the County of Oxford
… YARNTON lies 4 miles (6.5 km.) north-west of Oxford, on the north bank of the river Thames. 41 The river forms the southern parish boundary, and a tributary stream known as Rowel brook in the north and … practice of holding fairs on the village feast (24 August, St. Bartholomew's day), 53 and much earlier he had put an end …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government Local government Yarnton, as part of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit at the … in Steeple Barton, Cassington, Hampton Gay, Rousham, and Whitehill (in Tackley). 16 That Yarnton was referred to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Manor and other estates Manor and other estates In 1005 Ealdorman … cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of … with other d'Ivri lands, had become part of the honor of St. Valery, of which it formed one of the five demesne …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… 6 in. (a)VII, S.W., (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 the parish. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Selkirk; containing, with the village of Ettrick-Bridge and part of Yarrowford, 1264 inhabitants. This place, which … antiquity, was originally designated as the parish of St. Mary; its present name was acquired from the removal of … of an English gentleman of that name, who in the reign of David I. had settled in East Lothian, and acquired extensive …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… YARWELL (Fig. 218) Yarwell is a parish of 490 hectares on the W. of the R. Nene. It has always been a chapelry of Nassington, and served by a curate. Yarwell is not named in Domesday Book … Mercury, 21 Oct.). Ecclesiastical (1) The Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene (Fig. 219; Plate 32) stands on the S. side …