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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… in. (a)III, S.E., (b)VII, N.E.) Yanwath and Eamont Bridge is a parish on the N. border of the county immediately S.W. … house forms three sides of a courtyard. The tower is said to have been built by John de Sutton in 1322 and to this date … the banks late in the 18th century." It seems doubtful if he did very much deepening but his efforts are probably …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 2 The deep Ryebank rife which marks the southern boundary is apparently an artificial channel linking two streams which once flowed west and east. 3 A pond called the great pond 4 and later Greens pond formerly lay … Leeward Islands, 14 was living at Yapton Place by 1750. 15 He was succeeded at his death in 1774 by his son Sir William …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Archive, the much older unit of linear measure, also called a yard, was the equivalent of the rod, perch or pole … - SPAR hung at its centre in front of a mast and serving to support and extend the square SAIL attached to it. Yards … also have facilitated the production of wider textiles. It is noticeable from the Dictionary's Archive that broader …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… generally N. between 110 m. and 66 m. above OD, and is entirely on Boulder Clay except where the down-cutting of … at 107 m. above OD. Cropmarks of unknown form are said to exist here (NM Records). d(2) Enclosure (SP 850551), 700 … an earlier map of 1760 (NRO), the adjacent field was then called 'A Pightle by Dam'. Immediately below the dam is a …
A History of the County of Somerset
… The parish of Yarlington, the derivation of whose name is uncertain, 73 lies 6 km. south of Bruton. It is roughly … not finally discharged until 1650. 21 By his will of 1667 he left his estates to his only surviving son Maurice with … possibly created from a moat mentioned in 1485. 33 A house called Yarlington House was said to have been built by Sir …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Church The earliest reference to a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and 1161, of Yarnton … church of the abbey, and it was still occasionally called a chapel in the 14th century, 44 but no reference has … unusual among Yarnton's incumbents, was a working farmer. He kept the first known school in the parish and his pupils …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the names inscribed on the balls. The Yarnton balls are called Bolton (or Bouton), Dunn, Freeman, Gilbert, Green, … was transferred to other manors of the earl, but there is no reference to a similar traffic in reverse, and Yarnton … Spencer. 66 The process was reversed by Spencer after he acquired the manor in 1580, but some freeholds created in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… small private schools at the vicarage. 49 No other school is known before the later 18th century, and the vicar … in 1768 that the parish children were so backward that he had difficulty teaching them the catechism. 50 A school … weekdays. Pupils, who stayed at school from the ages of 4 to 10, paid ½ d. a week, the vicar and the parish each paid …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Frice farm and grounds, 50 and that corner of Yarnton was called Yarnton Frise in the late 19th century. 51 The terrain of the parish is mostly fairly flat, rising gently to 61 m. at the village … of the Spencer-Churchill and Dashwood families. 52 He stopped, in 1851, the recent practice of holding fairs on …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government Local government Yarnton, as part of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit … Villeins as well as free tenants were, unusually, expected to contribute to the lord's scutage. 15 The 'hundred' of Yarnton, so called in 1279, seems to have been the name given to an …