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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 … was formerly a green south of the medieval manor house and church. 86 Most houses date from the 18th and 19th centuries … Churchill, duchess of Marlborough (d. 1733) and their children. He died in 1766 and was succeeded by his only …
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 … bread and cakes to poor adults, and £1 in cakes to their children. The parish clerk received £8 a year, and the … 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 … during Lent, fortnightly communion services, and a monthly children's service. Congregations increased at a time when …
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 … because of a threatened uprising. 25 The Privy Council's concern may have slowed the process, but it could not … HO 107/1731; ibid. RG 10/1449; RG 11/1512. Rep. Com. on Children and Women in Agric. [4202-I], pp. 336, 345-6, H.C. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Education Education Hugh Evans, vicar of Yarnton 1579-1618, and John Goad, vicar 1646-60, kept … century, and the vicar reported in 1768 that the parish children were so backward that he had difficulty teaching … 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 … additions include a new primary school (1977), a children's home, Yarnton House (1967), in Rutten Lane, and a …
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… Yarnton Local government Local government Yarnton, as part of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from … 21 an anachronism that persisted into the 19th century; church, poor, surveyors', and constables' rates were all so … and in 1794 and 1815 the vestry paid for the parish's children to be inoculated. 39 Although elsewhere it was a …
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 … of the long gallery fireplace, one of the few in England to retain its original colouring, and the painted …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Nonconformity Nonconformity In 1634 the Irish wife of Ellis Perrott, member of a prominent Yarnton family, … 37 The only self-confessed Catholic was Sir William's grandson William (d. 1683). 38 John Goad, vicar 1646-60, … Oxford were attracting a sufficient following to affect church attendance. In the 1840s Primitive Methodists met in a …
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 village 4 m. N.N.W. of Leominster. The church is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish …