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A History of the County of Sussex
… Yapton YAPTON The parish of Yapton 93 lies on the coastal plain south-west of Arundel … containing three hides which was held by three free men in 1066 and by Warin in 1086. 77 At the division of the … both recording more agric. labourers living in par. than working there; Rep. Com. on Children and Women in Agric. 86. …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… the most important in the Dictionary Archive being a unit of linear measure that largely replaced the ELL. This old … of wider textiles. It is noticeable from the Dictionary's Archive that broader fabrics become more common during the … Randle Holme wrote that it was also called a 'Brewers Working Comb'. What ever its name, it was 'that Vessel into …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… c SP 74 SW, d SP 74 SE) The long, narrow parish, once part of Potterspury, stretches from the R. Tove on the E. boundary … to a little beyond Watling Street (A5) which forms most of the W. boundary. An E.-flowing stream flows along most of … in NMR) d(2) Moat (?) (SP 761448), lay immediately S. of Moor End Road, on Boulder Clay at 102 m. above OD. The …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the county boundary with Bedfordshire which forms its S.E. side. It consists of land sloping generally N. between 110 m. and 66 m. above … (1970), 6; 6 (1971), 20, Yardley Hastings (20)). d(6) Iron-Working Site (?) (SP 860578), N.W. of the village, on Boulder …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Yarlington YARLINGTON Yarlington in 1838 The parish of Yarlington, the derivation of whose name is uncertain, 73 … cuts a steep-sided valley from east to west between God's Hill (107 m. (352 ft.)) and Yarlington Sleights (127 m. … and later a dairy were attached and a room opened for a men's club. 97 The Stag's Head remained in business in 1995. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and 1161, of Yarnton chapel to Eynsham abbey. 43 Yarnton was probably a … the vicarage until the Dissolution. 47 In 1466 the abbey's nominee was rejected as unfit and presentation was made by … Minn family and, unusual among Yarnton's incumbents, was a working farmer. He kept the first known school in the parish …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Economic history Economic history The presence in Yarnton of detached parts of Begbroke parish, 14 and the sharing of … chapman, and clerk. 62 The subsidy of 1524, for which 26 men were assessed on goods and wages, seems to have omitted … had been without labourers: 'all [were] small renters working their own farms'. 71 The memory may have exaggerated, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Introduction YARNTON lies 4 miles (6.5 km.) north-west of Oxford, on the north bank of the river Thames. 41 The … in Yarnton until 1932. 47 That change increased Yarnton's area from 1,644 a. to 1,762 a. (713 ha.). 48 An area known … were amalgamated and in 1983 Paternoster Farm was the only working farmhouse in the village. The earliest outlying …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Local government Local government Yarnton, as part of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from … were, unusually, expected to contribute to the lord's scutage. 15 The 'hundred' of Yarnton, so called in 1279, … of total poor relief expenditure. In 1802-3 there were 13 men and 11 women so employed, and the cost had risen to c. …
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, later bishop of Lincoln, who eventually returned the abbey's other estates …