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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… on limestone at 80 m. above OD. Roman material is recorded from this site ( BNFAS, 1 (1966), 8, listed under Grendon; 6 … These seem to be associated with an area of dark soil from which have come large stones, part of a saddle quern, a … of the parish, within a group of fields probably reclaimed from the surrounding woodland in medieval times. It was on …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… and continuous and the outer chamfered and springing from modern attached shafts with old foliated capitals and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… It is roughly triangular in 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 feeder of … the Cam. A tributary of the Cam cuts a steep-sided valley from east to west between God's Hill (107 m. (352 ft.)) and …
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 … during the past year had been 'wicked' should be dropped from the list. 74 By Charity Commission Schemes of 1907 and … was living in the old schoolhouse and receiving £8 a year from the charity. 75 West's charity was established by will …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to the united benefice with Brasenose College and, from 1986, with the duke of Marlborough. 56 The church was … became an endowed vicarage of 5 marks a year, derived from a house formerly the chaplain's and all altar offerings … rural deanery, worth in 1707 only £36 a year, derived from small tithes ( £32), payments for morning prayers ( £2), …
A History of the County of Oxford
… lots descended with particular farms and can be traced from the 17th century, while others were separated from ownership of land in the parish. In the 19th century the … to have been improved at that period, its value rising from 8 d. an acre in 1272 to 2 s. in 1304. 37 The practice of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was supported in 1797 by a biannual payment of 18 s. from the overseers and by voluntary subscriptions. The … 55 was usually spent on clothes for the schoolchildren. 56 From 1817 a room in the new parish clerk's house at the … Sundays and 42 on weekdays. Pupils, who stayed at school from the ages of 4 to 10, paid ½ d. a week, the vicar and the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the stream bed. 42 Field boundaries separate Yarnton from Cassington on the west and from Begbroke on the north. A large detached part of Begbroke … until 1932. 47 That change increased Yarnton's area from 1,644 a. to 1,762 a. (713 ha.). 48 An area known as …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit at the hundred court of Wootton by Richard, earl of … annual view of frankpledge at Yarnton attended by tenants from St. Valery manors in Steeple Barton, Cassington, Hampton … 16th century and early 17th by malt or malt money received from the parish's farmers. 20 By 1800 and probably earlier a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… difficult for the bishops to obtain their dues from the manor, and in the 14th century their claims to … the manor was said to be held of the honor of Wallingford, from which the honor of St. Valery was by then scarcely … apparently including the blocking of the former through-passage by the insertion of a central staircase. The house …