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A History of the County of Oxford
… 28 Lot meadows flanking the river were never ploughed or inclosed, and they present a remarkable survival of immemorial custom into modern times. Oxey, or Oxhurst, mead (66 a.) and West mead (75 a.) lie along the … lot of meadow originally went with 1 hide of land, and a quarter lot with 1 yardland. 34 The origin of the lot meadows …
A History of the County of Oxford
… difficulty teaching them the catechism. 50 A school for 6 or 8 children, in existence by 1780, 51 may have been the … for the maintenance of the monuments in the Spencer chapel or, if not needed there, for Yarnton's poor, 55 was usually … clerk's house, any surplus to be used for the school; £3 or £4 of that money was usually combined with money raised by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 49 The name was preserved in the 17th century in Frize or Frice farm and grounds, 50 and that corner of Yarnton was … footpath running eastwards from Worton towards Church Lane or Mead Lane. 62 Pre-inclosure maps of Cassington do not … the Upper Thames valley have left traces in the north-east quarter of the parish and west of Mead Lane. Neolithic flint …
A History of the County of Oxford
… hide, which presumably merged with the larger estate on or before Odo's death in 1097. Yarnton was held thereafter of … Elizabeth and Jane, who in 1826 sold her moiety of the quarter share to Elizabeth's son and heir Thomas Vowler … 92 It seems to have been bought in the late 19th century or early 20th by Stephen Howse, and sold by him shortly after …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… is associated with reminiscences of deeper interest, or more closely identified with the finest strains of … a mile and a half in circuit, by a narrow neck of land, or sandbank, thrown up by opposite currents of two small … have been so sweetly depicted in Scottish song, is in this quarter finely and thickly wooded; many of the plantations on …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… all the larger and fashionable houses were copyhold or freehold; the only house of more than average status built … House, two storeys built in three phases in the second quarter of the 19th century, has a class 6 front range and a … on the street front and one at right angles behind, second quarter 19th-century. (22) Wendmuir, one storey and attics, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… although on the east its roughly straight lines link or approach several summits. There is a barrow on it in the … and a northsouth road along the parish's western boundary or via either of the Avebury roads. The village could be … of both farmsteads were replaced in the 20th century. Two or more cottages stood south-east of the site of Yatesbury …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… the parish of Llangyvelach, form the ecclesiastical parish or district of Clydach, formed under the act 6th and 7th … manor. The area is 332 acres, of which 30 acres are common or waste. Ynyscynhaiarn (Ynys-Cynhaiarn) YNYSCYNHAIARN … places, but none of the mines are worked with spirit or success. The living is annexed to the rectory of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… moulded bases and capitals; the latter have carved paterae or foliage on the N. arcade and small grotesque beasts on the … church, (5) to Ann (Daw), wife of Joseph Barber, late 17th or early 18th-century, table-tomb; (6) to Henery Kaines, … 2 ft. 6 in. tall, top part rectangular to round or oval, remaining sides each with nimbed bust under arch and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Yielding - Yoxhall Yielding, or Yelden (St. Mary) YIELDING, or Yelden ( St. Mary), a parish, in the hundred of Stodden, … Severus sent out his legions with instructions to give no quarter, but to put men, women, and children indiscriminately …