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A History of the County of Oxford
… latter was supported in 1797 by a biannual payment of 18 s. from the overseers and by voluntary subscriptions. The … in the new parish clerk's house at the north-west end of Church Lane was used as a schoolroom. 57 The children were … £3 from the Fletcher benefaction and £1 from the bishop of St. Asaph, an absentee landowner. 61 An evening school …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Yarnton until 1932. 47 That change increased Yarnton's area from 1,644 a. to 1,762 a. (713 ha.). 48 An area known … by a footpath running eastwards from Worton towards Church Lane or Mead Lane. 62 Pre-inclosure maps of Cassington … practice of holding fairs on the village feast (24 August, St. Bartholomew's day), 53 and much earlier he had put an end …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government Yarnton, as part of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit at the … were, unusually, expected to contribute to the lord's scutage. 15 The 'hundred' of Yarnton, so called in 1279, … 21 an anachronism that persisted into the 19th century; church, poor, surveyors', and constables' rates were all so …
A History of the County of Oxford
… granted 10 hides at YARNTON, formerly his cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was … with other d'Ivri lands, had become part of the honor of St. Valery, of which it formed one of the five demesne … recover Yarnton, but although the abbey's ownership of the church was never challenged it could not regain the manor and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 37 The only self-confessed Catholic was Sir William's grandson William (d. 1683). 38 John Goad, vicar 1646-60, … from Oxford, applied for a licence for John Preedy's cottage in Yarnton to be used as a meeting house. 41 The … 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 Church of St. Leonard (Plate 188) stands in the S. part of the parish. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… antiquity, was originally designated as the parish of St. Mary; its present name was acquired from the removal of the church to the banks of the river Yarrow, about the middle of … is still preserved in the name of a pass called the "Hart's leap," marked by two stones said to have been placed there …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… (NRO, W(A) 4.XVI.5; 6.XII); its site to the W. of the church is indicated by the field names Dovecote Close and … of a single straight street with regular plots on the S. side, including the manor site and glebe. The layout on … Mercury, 21 Oct.). Ecclesiastical (1) The Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene (Fig. 219; Plate 32) stands on the S. side …
The Rulers of London 1660-1689
… Cheap, 1688-91 Tory, 1690 (1) Cf William Yate, widower, of St Mary Colechurch, worth £600, 1695 (2) (1) Bodl Lib, … YERBURY, Richard Co Co Bread Street, 1674-80, 1688- 92 St Nicholas Coleabbey, 1661, St Margaret Moses, 1662, 1678, … (3) Will PCC 126 Penn pr, 30 Sep 1670 f John Young, s of William Young of-, Som, m Anne Mills, als Saunders, of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Hill. 30 Flat and well drained, nearly all Yatesbury's land is suitable for ploughing. Large areas of open field … century the site had apparently been acquired by Calne church. Two farmsteads of the manor which belonged to that … Yatesbury. 59 An estate in Yatesbury was held from 1412 by St. Mary's priory near Marlborough. In 1539 it passed to the …