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A History of the County of Oxford
… an endowed vicarage of 5 marks a year, derived from a house formerly the chaplain's and all altar offerings except … College. 72 George Blunt, 1544-7, and William Milton, or Gibbon, 1547-64, were former monks. 73 Hugh Evans, … Pars. 220. For a list of medieval presentations from 1235 see Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. d 460. Stapleton, Three Oxon. Pars. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 28 Lot meadows flanking the river were never ploughed or inclosed, and they present a remarkable survival of … the Southern Electricity Board, a tyre depot in Cassington Road, a sewage works off Kidlington Lane, nursery gardens in … For the significance of the mowing days in village life, see above, Intro. Charlett, Statutory Declaration; H. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… difficulty teaching them the catechism. 50 A school for 6 or 8 children, in existence by 1780, 51 may have been 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 … given an annuity of £5 for repairs to the parish clerk's house, any surplus to be used for the school; £3 or £4 of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the south-east corner of Yarnton west of King's bridge. A house stood c. 1200 on the Yarnton side of the boundary. 49 The name was preserved in the 17th century in Frize or Frice farm and grounds, 50 and that corner of Yarnton was … road, was also recorded from the 1750s. It comprises a row of rubble and brick buildings with jetties at the first …
A History of the County of Oxford
… financed in the later 16th century and early 17th by malt or malt money received from the parish's farmers. 20 By 1800 … highest. 27 Yarnton's proximity to Oxford on the Woodstock road presumably accounts for the very large numbers of … 1795 and 1806. 32 In 1839 all 16 parish cottages, said to house 84 people, 'half the labouring poor' in Yarnton, were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… hide, which presumably merged with the larger estate on or before Odo's death in 1097. Yarnton was held thereafter of … the payment of tithes, from which Rewley, as a Cistercian house, had been exempt. 69 Rewley abbey was dissolved in … Life, i (O.H.S. xix), 218. For an acct. of Dashwood fam. see J. Townsend, Oxon. Dashwoods (Oxf. 1922). O.R.O., Dash. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… John Preedy's cottage in Yarnton to be used as a meeting house. 41 The cottage may have stood at the east end of … By 1854 John Herbert's cottage near the Oxford-Woodstock road was licensed for prayer meetings, and dissenters also … survived in 1983 towards the east end of Cassington Road. O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 332, f. 484. Ibid. c 335, f. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… the main roof are mostly modern, but those of the lantern or bell-chamber are partly old; three sides of the lantern … drain, 14th-century. ConditionGood. Secular a(2). Manor House and outbuilding, 100 yards S.E. of the church. The … good, unless noted. a(3). House, on the S. side of the road, 125 yards S.S.E. of the church, has modern additions on …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… is associated with reminiscences of deeper interest, or more closely identified with the finest strains of … pleasantly situated on the banks of the Tweed; the mansion-house has been enlarged and beautified, and the grounds are … of Fetlar and North Yell, and Mid and South Yell, which see. Yell, Mid and South YELL, MID and SOUTH, a parish, in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… found only 20 cm. below the ground surface. No tessellated or tiled floors were uncovered but pottery of the 2nd and 3rd … 06189914), 1 km. N.W. of the village, close to the Roman road (571) on limestone at 175 ft. above OD. It was found in … show that it did not extend across the Yarwell-Wansford road. This land, recently cleared of trees, was formerly part …