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A History of the County of Oxford
… beyond Spring Hill. North and west of the village the land is Oxford clay, interspersed with terraces of river … Much of the village stands on gravel, while the lower land is river alluvium. 52 Yarnton's medieval arable lay … quarter of the parish. 17 From c. 1850, when the land was farmed from Begbroke Hill, Parker's Farm was used …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of … sold in 1965. In 1895 the college bought Hill farm, whose land adjoined Jackson's farm, from Sir George Dashwood. … Manor. O.R.O., Dash, XV/ii/3-8; ibid. tithe award. Ibid. land tax assess.; P.O. Dir. Oxon. (1847 and later ends.). …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Bruce was recovered from the English by Sir James Douglas, upon whom, as a reward for his fidelity, that monarch … is about a mile and a half in circuit, by a narrow neck of land, or sandbank, thrown up by opposite currents of two … which purpose the Marquess of Tweeddale has erected a mill upon his lands. Yester House, the seat of the marquess, is a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… it did not extend across the Yarwell-Wansford road. This land, recently cleared of trees, was formerly part of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… secondary; hence, in 1778 it included the only freehold land in the village. The majority of three-room buildings of … house of more than average status built on Westmorland land was the mill house (27). The village has always been …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… where it leaves the parish at c. 160 m. The highest land is on the parish boundary, 210 m. where there is a ridge … Hill. 30 Flat and well drained, nearly all Yatesbury's land is suitable for ploughing. Large areas of open field lay … were called sleights in the earlier 19th century and the land adjoined downland in Compton Bassett. There was little …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… worship for Baptists. The rent of about fourteen acres of land, amounting to 14. 14., is chiefly distributed among the … the Earl of Craven; net income, 487, arising entirely from land allotted at the inclosure in 1770: a new glebe-house was … Thirty children are instructed for 35 a year, arising from land bequeathed by Mrs. Ashby in 1719. Yelverton (St. Mary) …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ½ a. of demesne corn and from 3 a. and another piece of land in Yelford field were payable to Bampton parish in the … was awarded a rent charge of £65 for tithes of Lenthall's land, and in 1852 a further £50 rent charge for the tithes of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… until inclosure in 1853. 19 In 1086 Yelford manor had land for 3 ploughs, 20 and there may have been other, unrecorded, land in the parish: in 1279 various estates there comprised a … in 1708 presumably excluded much of the open-field land, certainly the college estate, which by then was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… only for his inclosed estate, acquired some open-field land with the Walwyn family's Yelford estate in the mid 16th … persisted: the inclosed estate, which in 1625, excluding land outside the parish, comprised c. 310 a. worked from … as the whole parish, and although much of the open-field land immediately to the east continued to be worked from the …