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A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Church Church The earliest reference to a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and 1161, of … the abbey, and it was still occasionally called a chapel in the 14th century, 44 but no reference has been found to … Bowdery, then incumbent, intended to replace it with a new, two-storeyed, four-roomed house, with wash house and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Economic history Economic history The presence in Yarnton of detached parts of Begbroke parish, 14 and the … once shared a single set of fields. The medieval yardland in Yarnton seems to have comprised c. 25 a. exclusive of … to sell off large parts of the estate. By 1573 several new freeholds had been created, including that bought by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… before the later 18th century, and the vicar reported in 1768 that the parish children were so backward that he had … them the catechism. 50 A school for 6 or 8 children, in existence by 1780, 51 may have been the precursor of a … clothes for the schoolchildren. 56 From 1817 a room in the new parish clerk's house at the north-west end of Church Lane …
A History of the County of Oxford
… boundary, and a tributary stream known as Rowel brook in the north and as Kingsbridge brook in the south formed the … 92 The increase was allegedly the consequence of building new cottages for poor families, who then 'over-filled the new … night of 3 June 1644, was made through Yarnton. The king's army crossed the Thames to Mead Lane, passing along Church …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the lord's scutage. 15 The 'hundred' of Yarnton, so called in 1279, seems to have been the name given to an annual view … at Yarnton attended by tenants from St. Valery manors in Steeple Barton, Cassington, Hampton Gay, Rousham, and … remained quit of shire and hundred after 1281, under its new owner Rewley abbey. 18 The last known meeting of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Manor and other estates Manor and other estates In 1005 Ealdorman Aethelmaer granted 10 hides at YARNTON, … Turner, who sold it in 1718 to Benjamin Swete, formerly army paymaster under John Churchill, duke of Marlborough. 78 … as a service wing at the north-west corner of the new house, which was an imposing structure of coursed rubble …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Yarrow - Zetland Y Yarrow YARROW, a parish, in the county of Selkirk, 9 miles (W.) from Selkirk; … been selected by Douglas as the rendezvous of the Scottish army previously to the battle of Otterburn, and it was the … insufficient for the accommodation of the parishioners. A new church was therefore erected in 1837, well adapted for a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Nassington, and served by a curate. Yarwell is not named in Domesday Book but was probably included in Nassington, a village attributed with two mills, one of … ballast. Enclosure was in 1778 (NRO, plan 57). In 1881 a new cemetery and mortuary chapel for both Yarwell and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 1,674 a. (677 ha.), was absorbed by Cherhill parish in 1934. 28 The parish boundary is marked by few prominent … link or approach several summits. There is a barrow on it in the south and, also in the south, it was marked by many … it was turnpiked in 1743; 34 in 17912 it was moved to a new course on lower land c. 200 m. further north. 35 The …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Yazor 82 YAZOR (C.e.) (O.S. 6 in. XXV, S.E.) Yazor is a parish 8 m. N.W. of Hereford. The … tiled. The South Transept appears to have been built late in the 13th or early in the 14th century, at which time there … the West Tower was added probably in the same century. The new church of St. Mary was built in 1855, when the old church …