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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Yardley Gobion 69 YARDLEY GOBION (OS 1:10000 a SP 74 NW, b SP 74 NE, c SP 74 SW, d SP 74 SE) The long, … Potterspury, stretches from the R. Tove on the E. boundary to a little beyond Watling Street (A5) which forms most of … Northants. Archaeol., 10 (1975), 164; 12 (1977), 222). For Roman Road 1e, Watling Street, see Appendix. Medieval and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… roughly triangular in shape, measuring 2.5 km. from north to south at its widest and 3 km. from east to west. The only natural boundary is a feeder of the river Cam in the south-east; parts of the … a shop and later a dairy were attached and a room opened for a men's club. 97 The Stag's Head remained in business in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Charities Sir Thomas Spencer by will dated 1684 left a rent charge of £7 a year on Windmill field for repairs to the family chapel, with the residue given to the poor on …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Church Church The earliest reference to a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and … £36 a year, derived from small tithes ( £32), payments for morning prayers ( £2), and rent from the vicarage house ( …
A History of the County of Oxford
… set of fields. The medieval yardland in Yarnton seems to have comprised c. 25 a. exclusive of meadow and pasture, … of 1517 accused Rewley abbey in 1489 of inclosing 230 a. for pasture and allowing 6 houses and 4 cottages to become … Oxford market 4 bu. of peas, 4 bu. of barley, and 9 bu. of malt. 92 The name Linton close, mentioned in 1536, 93 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… that he had difficulty teaching them the catechism. 50 A school for 6 or 8 children, in existence by 1780, 51 may have been … 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
… 41 The river forms the southern parish boundary, and a tributary stream known as Rowel brook in the north and as … route followed by 17th-century perambulations seems not to have been recorded, 44 and in 1811 the muniments at … were consulted without success. 45 The tithe awards for Begbroke (1844) and Yarnton (1845) settled the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by Richard, earl of Cornwall. Earl Edmund held courts for his villeins at Yarnton, but free tenants owed suit at … Villeins as well as free tenants were, unusually, expected to contribute to the lord's scutage. 15 The 'hundred' of … were financed in the later 16th century and early 17th by malt or malt money received from the parish's farmers. 20 By …
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 … as 2 knights' fees, but it became increasingly difficult for the bishops to obtain their dues from the manor, and in … in return for the payment of tithes, from which Rewley, as a Cistercian house, had been exempt. 69 Rewley abbey was …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Yarrow - Zetland Y Yarrow YARROW, a parish, in the county of Selkirk, 9 miles (W.) from … present name was acquired from the removal of the church to the banks of the river Yarrow, about the middle of the … the English by Sir James Douglas, upon whom, as a reward for his fidelity, that monarch conferred the lands, which at …