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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 … - SPAR hung at its centre in front of a mast and serving to support and extend the square SAIL attached to it. Yards … as cogs, AXLE TREEs, WHEELs and TANKARDs. Attempts by Parliament to encourage the use of alternative WOODs, like …
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 to a little beyond Watling Street (A5) which forms most of … with those of Potterspury, were enclosed by an Act of Parliament of 1775 (NRO, Enclosure Map, 1776). Very little …
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 … to be associated with an area of dark soil from which have come large stones, part of a saddle quern, a quantity of Iron … The common fields of the parish were enclosed by Act of Parliament of 1776. Shortly before that (NRO, Map of 1760) …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Yarlington YARLINGTON Yarlington in 1838 The parish of Yarlington, the derivation of whose name is uncertain, 73 … roughly triangular in shape, measuring 2.5 km. from north to south at its widest and 3 km. from east to west. The only … were in closes 87 and by the early 18th century had come to form Yarlington farm of over 300 a. 88 By the 1780s …
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 chapel, with the residue given to the poor on … not been complied with. Despite local protests the Charity Commissioners ruled that the chapel's repair should be the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Church Church The earliest reference to a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and 1161, of Yarnton chapel to Eynsham abbey. 43 Yarnton was probably a … of his fellowship at Exeter College by the parliamentary commissioners, 75 seems to have had little contact with the …
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 … c. 300 a.) of demesne recorded elsewhere. 20 The inclosure commissioners of 1517 accused Rewley abbey in 1489 of … as the yardlanders; the other cottage, with 2 a., had come into the hands of a free tenant, who paid 2 s. 6 d. …
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 … Close (3 a.), lay north-east of the junction of Sandy Lane with the Woodstock road. The boundaries with Begbroke and its … route followed by 17th-century perambulations seems not to have been recorded, 44 and in 1811 the muniments at …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… (b)XII, N.W.) Yarpole is a parish and village 4 m. N.N.W. of Leominster. The church is the principal monument. … of the parish. The walls are of local sandstone rubble with dressings of the same material; the roofs are covered … The church was restored in 1864, when the Chancel seems to have been re-built, the North Aisle was added, and the S. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Yarrow - Zetland Y Yarrow YARROW, a parish, in the county of Selkirk, 9 miles (W.) from Selkirk; containing, with the village of Ettrick-Bridge and part of Yarrowford, … present name was acquired from the removal of the church to the banks of the river Yarrow, about the middle of the …