Search
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… the most important in the Dictionary Archive being a 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 … colours occurring in the spectrum between green and orange; the colour of BUTTER or that of the yoke of an egg. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… c SP 74 SW, d SP 74 SE) The long, narrow parish, once part of Potterspury, stretches from the R. Tove on the E. boundary … Roman Road 1e, Watling Street, see Appendix. Medieval and Later The leg of a medieval grey ware vessel was found in the … 110 m. above OD. The park is first mentioned in 1230 when William de Ferrers was granted a deer leap in his park of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… with Bedfordshire which forms its S.E. side. It consists of land sloping generally N. between 110 m. and 66 m. above … is entirely on Boulder Clay except where the down-cutting of a number of N.-flowing streams has exposed narrow bands of … BNFAS, 6 (1971), 19, Yardley Hastings (13)). Medieval and Later A complete St. Neots ware jug is said to have been …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Yarlington YARLINGTON Yarlington in 1838 The parish of Yarlington, the derivation of whose name is uncertain, 73 … on the village green. 96 Between 1871 and 1899 a shop and later a dairy were attached and a room opened for a men's … in 1086. 10 The fee probably passed to Robert's son William who forfeited his estates in 1106. 11 By 1166 it was …
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 … allowed to fall into disrepair because the original terms of the endowment had not been complied with. Despite local … should be the first charge on the bequest. 73 Alderman William Fletcher, by deed dated 1823, gave £30 a year to the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and 1161, of Yarnton chapel to Eynsham abbey. 43 Yarnton was probably a … Richard Brainthwaite, grandfather of the then lord, Sir William Spencer, presented. Oxford University presented in … in the diocese and not found again in Yarnton until the later 19th century. 79 Although Thomas Gregory of Hordley in …
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 … by inclosure in the 15th and 16th centuries. 18 By the later 13th century land perhaps lay in two fields; in 1272 … and the Marshes in the south-east. 24 In 1596 Sir William Spencer was one of the local landlords whose …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Education Education Hugh Evans, vicar of Yarnton 1579-1618, and John Goad, vicar 1646-60, kept … at the vicarage. 49 No other school is known before the later 18th century, and the vicar reported in 1768 that the … to the construction on the Rutten Lane site in 1971 of the William Fletcher County Primary School, with seven classrooms …
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 … Book, 79 or only a single settlement south and west of the later village. The name Yarnton, formerly Erdington, is said … built soon after 1829 by Thomas Robinson, nephew of William Fletcher, mentioned below, and owner of a farm in the …
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 suit at the … matters. 19 The two churchwardens were financed in the later 16th century and early 17th by malt or malt money …