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A History of the County of Somerset
… shape, measuring 2.5 km. from north to south at its widest and 3 km. from east to west. The only natural boundary is a … south of the medieval manor house and church. 86 Most houses date from the 18th and 19th centuries and are of stone … school had 63 pupils in 1825. 11 In 1833 there were three schools: a day school for girls begun in 1828 which had 12 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… day. Usually the whole amount was given to the poor, and from c. 1815 it was used to support the school and clothe schoolchildren. 72 In 1914, however, the vicar and churchwardens claimed that the Spencer chapel had been …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and 1161, of Yarnton chapel to Eynsham abbey. 43 Yarnton was probably a daughter church of the abbey, and it was still occasionally called a chapel in the 14th … Eynsham. 45 The benefice was united with Begbroke in 1984, and the joint benefice was in 1986 united with …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Yarnton of detached parts of Begbroke parish, 14 and the sharing of lot meadows along the Thames, may indicate … in 1489 of inclosing 230 a. for pasture and allowing 6 houses and 4 cottages to become derelict, leaving 36 people … while the number of villein yardlands fell to 28. 57 Six houses and yardlands excluded by Eynsham abbey from its claim …
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 … incumbents' reports of 1738 and 1759 that there were c. 20 houses in the parish. 91 There was the usual population … claimed that Yarnton had once comprised 'a group of houses ranging at short intervals along Church Lane' but had …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Steeple Barton, Cassington, Hampton Gay, Rousham, and Whitehill (in Tackley). 16 That Yarnton was referred to … as a demesne manor. 17 Yarnton remained quit of shire and hundred after 1281, under its new owner Rewley abbey. 18 … two churchwardens were financed in the later 16th century and early 17th by malt or malt money received from the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Manor and other estates Manor and other estates In 1005 Ealdorman Aethelmaer granted 10 … for the bishops to obtain their dues from the manor, and in the 14th century their claims to overlordship seem to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 35 The Spencers married into Roman Catholic families, 36 and in 1646 Sir William Spencer (d. 1657) was allegedly … Oxford-Woodstock road was licensed for prayer meetings, and dissenters also met at Southby's Farm, then occupied by … during 1866 were reputedly attended by c. 16 people, 47 and the number of dissenters reported in the later 19th …
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 … seems to have been re-built, the North Aisle was added, and the S. porch largely re-built. The tower was restored in … the early 14th-century chancel-arch, which is two-centred and of two chamfered orders with a moulded label; the …