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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… eight yards in breadth, built on the very edge of the hill, with an entrance on the south; within this is another … There are several smaller circles on other parts of the hill, with vestiges of a grove of oaks, strongly indicating … remarkable hills, from the summit of one of which, Newton Hill, the English and Bristol Channels can be discerned. The …
A Dictionary of London
… and P.H. VIII. XIX. (t), p.86). On the east side of Peter Hill (S. 369). York House Wheatley says Baynard's Castle was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (estimated at 315 a.), from Wadham College's Yelford farm (160 a.), and from another 80 a. in the open fields of Hardwick. 23 In 1708 part of Combe hill in Lew was said to be tithable to Yelford, but no later … let; the tenant for much of the later 19th century was a farm labourer who also served as parish clerk and in 1869 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… worth £40. 41 By then much of Yelford was an inclosed farm in single ownership, but a few other substantial … £250. 50 In 1625 the inclosed Hastings estate, later Manor farm, comprised 218 a. of pasture, 109 a. of meadow, 4 a. of … if it was the former Walwyn land). 53 The inclosed farm as let by the Lenthalls from the mid 17th century was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the only other farmhouse in the village (later College Farm) 65 both the house and attached estate were regarded as … the higher ground in the north of the parish at Rickless Hill (87 m.) and near Home wood ( c. 90 m.), and Oxford clay the hill slopes. 80 The problem of flooding, not entirely solved …
A History of the County of Oxford
… enlarged his Yelford estate by acquiring Wadham College's farm there, 59 and died unmarried in 1907. Yelford passed to … 60 Edith Lenthall sold her Yelford property in 1949, Manor farm being purchased by F. E. Parker of Barley Park, … the later 19th century the house was usually occupied by farm bailiffs and labourers, and in the earlier 20th century …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Several generations of the Baker family, tenants of Manor farm from the 1760s to c. 1820, were Baptists attending Cote …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… village 5 m. E.N.E. of St. Neots. The Church and Church Farm are the principal monuments. Ecclesiastical (1). Parish … each of a male face. ConditionGood. Secular (2). Church Farm, house, barn and stables, on S. side of the road … ConditionGood or fairly good, unless noted. (3). Top Farm, on S. side of road, 250 yards E. of the church has the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… possibly have been Shenley, the name given to the modern farm in the area, nor is there any cartographic evidence of a … Shenley. The first is immediately N. and N.W. of Shenley Farm (sp 570749). The farm itself lies over ridge-and-furrow, but to the N. is a …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… employed. There are limestone-quarries on almost every farm; and the parish contains some mines of lead-ore, … with the Established Church. Upon the summit of a gravelly hill near the village are some remains of the ancient castle … commanding site to the north of the chapel; and on another hill, designated Tommen Vilwyn, is a cairn of tolerable size. …