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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… in NMR) d(2) Moat (?) (SP 761448), lay immediately S. of Moor End Road, on Boulder Clay at 102 m. above OD. The … of a rectangular area 60 m. by 40 m., orientated N.E.S.W. and bounded on the N.W., S.W. and part of the N.E. and … It is said to have been the site of the manor house of Yardley Gobion (G. Baker, Hist. of Northants., II …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the county boundary with Bedfordshire which forms its S.E. side. It consists of land sloping generally N. between … here (NM Records). d(2) Enclosure (SP 850551), 700 m. W.S.W. of (1) in a similar situation. Air photographs (in NMR) … (23) Dam Fig. 165 Yardley Hastings (24) Site of manor house b(20) Roman Settlement (SP 855529), S.W. of Biggin …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Yarkhill 96 YARKHILL (C.c.) (O.S. 6 in. XXXIV, N.E.) Yarkhill is a parish 7 m. E.N.E. of … (1). Parish Church of St. John the Baptist stands in the S. part of the parish. The walls are of local sandstone … a dry ditch with a right-angled bend. (3). Showle Court, house, outbuilding and moat, 1,160 yards N.N.E. of the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… cuts a steep-sided valley from east to west between God's Hill (107 m. (352 ft.)) and Yarlington Sleights (127 m. … 85 There was formerly a green south of the medieval manor house and church. 86 Most houses date from the 18th and 19th … 100 a., extending as far as the parish boundary where the lord claimed a deer leap in the 18th century. 78 It was known …
A History of the County of Oxford
… chapel, with the residue given to the poor on St. Thomas's day. Usually the whole amount was given to the poor, and … protests the Charity Commissioners ruled that the chapel's repair should be the first charge on the bequest. 73 … account for the school and for the repair of the clerk's house. In 1971 the charity provided £15 a year distributed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the vicarage until the Dissolution. 47 In 1466 the abbey's nominee was rejected as unfit and presentation was made by … but by 1579 the advowson had been bought by John Durant, lord of the manor, 51 and it descended with the manor … an endowed vicarage of 5 marks a year, derived from a house formerly the chaplain's and all altar offerings except …
A History of the County of Oxford
… because of a threatened uprising. 25 The Privy Council's concern may have slowed the process, but it could not … in the later 19th century, are included in Yarnton's lot meadows; the west part was also lot meadow in the 18th … paid rent of 4 s. each and provided services at the lord's will; 7 half-yardlanders paid 2 s. 6 d. each with …
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 Spencer chapel or, if not needed there, for Yarnton's poor, 55 was usually spent on clothes for the … 56 From 1817 a room in the new parish clerk's house at the north-west end of Church Lane was used as a …
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 … the south-east corner of Yarnton west of King's bridge. A house stood c. 1200 on the Yarnton side of the boundary. 49 … during a period of skirmishing north of Oxford, Ralph, Lord Hopton, a royalist commander, had quarters in Yarnton. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… tenants were, unusually, expected to contribute to the lord's scutage. 15 The 'hundred' of Yarnton, so called in 1279, … 1795 and 1806. 32 In 1839 all 16 parish cottages, said to house 84 people, 'half the labouring poor' in Yarnton, were …