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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 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 … by a large pond 50 m. by 90 m. on the S.E. The latter may be a relatively recent widening of the ditch on this side. A …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… at 107 m. above OD. Cropmarks of unknown form are said to exist here (NM Records). d(2) Enclosure (SP 850551), 700 … photographs (in NMR) show very indistinctly what appear to be the S. halves of two concentric enclosures about 110 m. … on limestone at 80 m. above OD. Roman material is recorded from this site ( BNFAS, 1 (1966), 8, listed under Grendon; 6 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… are covered with tiles and stone slates. There appears to have been a church here of c. 1200 as evidenced by some … and continuous and the outer chamfered and springing from modern attached shafts with old foliated capitals and … on the S., is a line of corbels of the former parapet, removed when the 15th-century top-stage was added; one corbel …
A History of the County of Somerset
… roughly triangular in shape, measuring 2.5 km. from north to south at its widest and 3 km. from east to west. The only … Earth and Fuller's Earth rock. 78 There were said to be light and dark blue marls at Woolston. 79 The turnpike … marquess of Northampton, who in the same year sold it to (Sir) Thomas Smith. 15 The Queen died in 1548 and in 1556 Sir …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Charities Charities 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 … Commissioners ruled that the chapel's repair should be the first charge on the bequest. 73 Alderman William …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Church Church The earliest reference to a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 … 1644 Richard Brainthwaite, grandfather of the then lord, Sir William Spencer, presented. Oxford University presented … for much of the 16th century. Rain, first said to be leaking into the church in 1520, 96 was still doing so in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… set of fields. The medieval yardland in Yarnton seems to have comprised c. 25 a. exclusive of meadow and pasture, … parish in 1279, but by the 17th century there were said to be only 44, 17 presumably because of the loss of arable land … northeast, and the Marshes in the south-east. 24 In 1596 Sir William Spencer was one of the local landlords whose …
A History of the County of Oxford
… A rent charge on Windmill field of £7 a year, devised by Sir Thomas Spencer (d. 1685) for the maintenance of the … weekdays. Pupils, who stayed at school from the ages of 4 to 10, paid ½ d. a week, the vicar and the parish each paid … £5 for repairs to the parish clerk's house, any surplus to be used for the school; £3 or £4 of that money was usually …
A History of the County of Oxford
… route followed by 17th-century perambulations seems not to have been recorded, 44 and in 1811 the muniments at Blenheim and 'early maps' belonging to Sir Henry Dashwood were consulted without success. 45 The … ground was almost always flooded and water could not be drained from the village. 56 Improvements were made in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Villeins as well as free tenants were, unusually, expected to contribute to the lord's scutage. 15 The 'hundred' of … in the parish the vestry ordered a register of hirings to be kept. After £56 had been spent in 1829-30 the vestry … people, 'half the labouring poor' in Yarnton, were sold to Sir George Dashwood. 33 Casual relief was given in money and …