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A History of the County of Somerset
… MANORS The 10 hides at Gyrdlingatone given to Glastonbury abbey in the mid 10th century have been interpreted as at …
A History of the County of Oxford
… made between 1155 and 1161, of Yarnton chapel to Eynsham abbey. 43 Yarnton was probably a daughter church of the abbey, and it was still occasionally called a chapel in the … of the vicarage until the Dissolution. 47 In 1466 the abbey's nominee was rejected as unfit and presentation was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 20 The inclosure commissioners of 1517 accused Rewley abbey in 1489 of inclosing 230 a. for pasture and allowing 6 … to Wytham parish, 30 and the north was owned by Godstow abbey, passing eventually to the dukes of Marlborough. 31 The … Bladon. 36 The rights may have been reorganized on Rewley abbey's acquisition of the manor in 1281: the demesne meadow …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The road was turnpiked in 1719, 57 and a tollhouse and gate were erected south of the Grapes inn, at the west end of … 86 An accusation of the late 15th century that Rewley abbey had partly depopulated the parish by inclosing 87 is …
A History of the County of Oxford
… shire and hundred after 1281, under its new owner Rewley abbey. 18 The last known meeting of the manorial court was in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… formerly his cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by … later bishop of Lincoln, who eventually returned the abbey's other estates but not, apparently, Yarnton. In 1086 … son Edmund granted Yarnton in 1281 to the newly founded abbey of Rewley. 67 Yarnton remained part of the honor of St. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… (12). a(14). Cottage, on the N. side of the road at Cock Gate, 1,000 yards N.W. of the church, was partly re-built in … wall is a blocked doorway with a four-centred head. a(26). Gate House, 130 yards S.S.E. of (25), is an L-shaped building …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… This place derives its name, signifying "the Hamlet of the Gate," from its position on the confines of Northumberland, …