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A History of the County of Oxford
… 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of Dorchester, later bishop of Lincoln, who eventually returned the abbey's other estates … notably the carved hall screen, much panelling, and several richly decorated armorial chimney pieces of the 17th …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Yarrow - Zetland Y Yarrow YARROW, a parish, in the county of Selkirk, 9 miles (W.) from Selkirk; containing, with the village of Ettrick-Bridge and part of Yarrowford, 1264 inhabitants. … ruins of the church of St. Mary. There are also several lakes of less importance, some of them containing …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Yatesbury YATESBURY Yatesbury village stands 7 km. east of Calne. 27 The parish, 1,674 a. (677 ha.), was absorbed by … on the east its roughly straight lines link or approach several summits. There is a barrow on it in the south and, … which survived in the later 19th century. 29 For much of its length the boundary is marked by roads. Chalk outcrops …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Yettington Yeading YEADING, a hamlet, in the parish of Hayes, union of Uxbridge, hundred of Elthorne, county of Middlesex; … the area is a large cairn hollowed like a bowl. There are several smaller circles on other parts of the hill, with …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yelford Church CHURCH. Masonry of the 12th century or earlier re-used in the church porch … Standlake, and Stanton Harcourt in the united benefice of Lower Windrush. 2 Bampton, to whose large pre-Conquest … was a sustained connexion with Jesus College, of which several rectors were fellows and two were principals; W. J. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yelford's medieval open fields probably covered much of the area of the Hastings family's inclosed estate depicted in 1625, 18 … until the mid 18th century when the Bakers, tenants for several generations, acquired leases of 20 years or more. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yelford Introduction YELFORD YELFORD, one of Oxfordshire's smallest rural parishes until it was included in 1932 in the civil parish of Hardwick-with-Yelford, 58 lies 3 miles (4.75 km.) south of Witney and 3 miles east of Bampton, 59 The village, noted …
A History of the County of Oxford
… LOCAL GOVERNMENT. In 1279 there was a twice-yearly view of frankpledge for the Hastings manor, and the Greys' manor in Hardwick, Brighthampton, and Yelford had view of frankpledge and other liberties, including gallows. 86 … the Lenthall estate: sometimes c. £8 was spent, but in several years no poor were recorded. 97 From 1834 Yelford …
A History of the County of Oxford
… no later reference to Roman Catholicism has been found. 62 Several generations of the Baker family, tenants of Manor farm from the 1760s to c. 1820, were Baptists …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Y Yerbeston YERBESTON, a parish, in the union and hundred of Narberth, county of Pembroke, South Wales, 4 miles (S. W.) from Narberth; … to Nantmelyn, in the parish of Llangyvelach. There are several coal-works in operation, but the number of persons …