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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 St. Thomas's day. Usually the whole amount was given to the … that if the village school should be discontinued the part of his bequest relating to it should be given instead to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and 1161, of Yarnton chapel to Eynsham abbey. 43 Yarnton was probably a … in the diocese and not found again in Yarnton until the later 19th century. 79 Although Thomas Gregory of Hordley in … a significant improvement. Thomas continued to spend part of the week in Yarnton until c. 1855, though relying …
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 … by inclosure in the 15th and 16th centuries. 18 By the later 13th century land perhaps lay in two fields; in 1272 … and Wolvercote mill stream. 29 Some 50 a. in the east part of Pixey mead, extraparochial until joined to Wolvercote …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Education Education Hugh Evans, vicar of Yarnton 1579-1618, and John Goad, vicar 1646-60, kept … at the vicarage. 49 No other school is known before the later 18th century, and the vicar reported in 1768 that the … £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
… Introduction YARNTON lies 4 miles (6.5 km.) north-west of Oxford, on the north bank of the river Thames. 41 The … the west and from Begbroke on the north. A large detached part of Begbroke parish (118 a.) lay in the east of Yarnton … Book, 79 or only a single settlement south and west of the later village. The name Yarnton, formerly Erdington, is said …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Local government Local government Yarnton, as part of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from … matters. 19 The two churchwardens were financed in the later 16th century and early 17th by malt or malt money …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of Dorchester, later bishop of Lincoln, who eventually returned the abbey's … 12th century Yarnton, with other d'Ivri lands, had become part of the honor of St. Valery, of which it formed one of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Nonconformity Nonconformity In 1634 the Irish wife of Ellis Perrott, member of a … collections were received from Yarnton in 1829, but no later mention has been found. 43 In the 1830s Henry Bulteel …
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. … Parish Church of St. Leonard (Plate 188) stands in the S. part of the parish. The walls are of local sandstone rubble … in old oak; the quatrefoils on the E. side are of later date. The Roof of the nave (Plate 123) is of the 14th …
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, 1264 inhabitants. This place, which is of … various styles of architecture, from the decorated to the later English. The transepts are of much earlier date than …