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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Potterspury, stretches from the R. Tove on the E. boundary to a little beyond Watling Street (A5) which forms most of … entirely destroyed by modern housing, but air photographs taken in 1947 (RAF VAP CPE/UK/1926, 5244) show that it was … 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 …
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 … was turnpiked by the Vale of Blackmore trust in 1765 and taken over by the Wincanton trust in 1818. 83 There are …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Church Church The earliest reference to a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 … for much of the 16th century. Rain, first said to be leaking into the church in 1520, 96 was still doing so in … screen of folding doors dated 1634 and of carved wood 'taken from out-of-sight places in the body of the church', 17 …
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 … 9 ploughs, an improbably large number, had allegedly been taken out of use. 21 By the 1520s the inclosed former demesne …
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 … the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. Smallpox sufferers were taken to isolation hospitals at Hensington and Wolvercote, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… granted 10 hides at YARNTON, formerly his cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of Dorchester, … Abbot Columban, but 9 1/2 hides at Yarnton, though said to be Eynsham's, were held of the bishop by Roger d'Ivri. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… present name was acquired from the removal of the church to the banks of the river Yarrow, about the middle of the … are found large trees, though scarcely a shrub is now to be seen. The arable land is chiefly near the shore; but it is … Sea-trout are also abundant; salmon have sometimes been taken, and the large numbers of cockles in the vicinity are …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… photographs which are available but its outer ditch can be seen as a crop-mark, 30 m. in diam. with an inner ditch 25 … School in 1953 but no report was published. Photographs taken during excavation, however, exist (copies in NMR), and … No other details are known. From the field immediately to the W. a complete Roman pot and some Iron Age sherds have …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in 1377. 32 In 1801 the population was 234. It had fallen to 218 by 1811 and had risen to its peak at 274 by 1831. For … by 1795 and possibly by 1683. 40 The London road could be reached from the village via the Avenue and a northsouth … succeeded by his brother Peter. 77 By 1250 the king had taken the manor from Peter as the land of a Norman, and in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (in Alvescot or Clanfield) and a piece of land belonging to the royal manor of Bampton, probably the 40 a. given … holding Yelford in the early 15th century and said to be Bartholomew's son, 37 was presumably the Thomas who held … ruined by fines imposed on him as a royalist, was taken advantage of by Lenthall remains unsubstantiated; it …