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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 18th century, and the vicar reported in 1768 that the parish children were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Thames. 41 The river forms the southern parish boundary, and a tributary stream known as Rowel brook in the north and … of two Iron Age ring ditches, and of burials, pottery, and other artefacts from the Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages, … the Civil War the manor house seems to have been used as a military hospital. Forty royalist soldiers were buried in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Manor and other estates Manor and other estates In 1005 Ealdorman Aethelmaer granted 10 hides …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Selkirk; containing, with the village of Ettrick-Bridge and part of Yarrowford, 1264 inhabitants. This place, which … its source in the hills of Dumfries-shire, among numerous other streams that form two lakes of considerable extent; and … kinsman, Colonel William Russell, distinguished for his military exploits in India, and more particularly at Manilla. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… some 760 hectares, lies E. of the R. Nene, between 40 ft. and 230 ft. above OD. The greater part lies on limestone and marls, except in the extreme W. where the higher ground … and a fine capital (Plate 24) were discovered. No other details are known. From the field immediately to the W. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the R. Nene. It has always been a chapelry of Nassington, and served by a curate. Yarwell is not named in Domesday Book … late 15th century the manor had passed to Sir Guy Wolston, and from him it passed to the Earls of Westmorland, all of … comprises shop at one end and Methodist Chapel at the other (2). (8) Two storeys, freestone dressings, Welsh slate …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… several summits. There is a barrow on it in the south and, also in the south, it was marked by many stones and mounds which survived in the later 19th century. 29 For … council restored the camp to farmland. 66 MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES The land of Yatesbury was possibly part of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… YAXLEY (C.b.). (O.S. 6 in. V. S.E.) Yaxley is a parish and large village 4 m. S.S.W. of Peterborough. The church is … the E. wall of the chancel, most of the tower, the spire and the S. porch which, with the dressings throughout the … the easternmost similar to that just described, the other two of c. 1300 and each of three pointed lights with …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 3379 inhabitants. This township, which includes Upper and Lower Yeadon, and Henshaw, comprises about 1730 acres, chiefly high … hollowed like a bowl. There are several smaller circles on other parts of the hill, with vestiges of a grove of oaks, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 13th century Yelford's incumbents were called rectors 1 and the living remained a rectory until 1976, when it was absorbed with Northmoor, Standlake, and Stanton Harcourt in the united benefice of Lower … Yelford's remoteness, lack of population, and proximity to other churches. 43 From the 1760s the principal farming …