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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… in NMR) d(2) Moat (?) (SP 761448), lay immediately S. of Moor End Road, on Boulder Clay at 102 m. above OD. The … It is not certain whether these are part of the castle or of the settlement remains (4). d(4) Settlement Remains (SP … in 1978. Two kilns and a large quantity of late 14th or early 15th-century roof tiles were noted ( Northants. …
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 … (1970), 6; 6 (1971), 20, Yardley Hastings (20)). d(6) Iron-Working Site (?) (SP 860578), N.W. of the village, on Boulder … In the S. part of the parish, within the existing woodland or in areas formerly wooded or used as common grazing, are a …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 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. … which eventually prevailed and the three daughters or their heirs were declared coheirs. The manor was then held …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the vicarage until the Dissolution. 47 In 1466 the abbey's nominee was rejected as unfit and presentation was made by … College. 72 George Blunt, 1544-7, and William Milton, or Gibbon, 1547-64, were former monks. 73 Hugh Evans, … 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
… 28 Lot meadows flanking the river were never ploughed or inclosed, and they present a remarkable survival 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
… 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 … 49 The name was preserved in the 17th century in Frize or Frice farm and grounds, 50 and that corner of Yarnton was … 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
… were, unusually, expected to contribute to the lord's scutage. 15 The 'hundred' of Yarnton, so called in 1279, … financed in the later 16th century and early 17th by malt or malt money received from the parish's farmers. 20 By 1800 … 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 … hide, which presumably merged with the larger estate on or before Odo's death in 1097. Yarnton was held thereafter of … 92 It seems to have been bought in the late 19th century or early 20th by Stephen Howse, and sold by him shortly after …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Yarpole 81 YARPOLE (D.b.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)VII, S.W., (b)XII, N.W.) Yarpole is a parish and … the main roof are mostly modern, but those of the lantern or bell-chamber are partly old; three sides of the lantern … and of two storeys, timber-framed, and with stone, tile or slate-covered roofs. Most of the buildings have exposed …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… is still preserved in the name of a pass called the "Hart's leap," marked by two stones said to have been placed there … 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 …