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A History of the County of Somerset
… parish suggest that the southern part of the route was new. The original road to Sherborne may have passed through … 85 There was formerly a green south of the medieval manor house and church. 86 Most houses date from the 18th and 19th … manor in the later Middle Ages, one incorporating a court leet. 36 Estreats survive for the 1540s, when the court …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for the better management of the distributions. The new scheme typically reflected Thomas's ability to combine … account for the school and for the repair of the clerk's house. In 1971 the charity provided £15 a year distributed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an endowed vicarage of 5 marks a year, derived from a house formerly the chaplain's and all altar offerings except … Bowdery, then incumbent, intended to replace it with a new, two-storeyed, four-roomed house, with wash house and … the chancel roof has been removed. 95 In the 14th century new two-light windows were inserted west of the north and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to sell off large parts of the estate. By 1573 several new freeholds had been created, including that bought by … in the 18th century was woad, heavily labour intensive. Of new farms created, the most notable were Hill farm, whose … began to travel to work in Oxford and elsewhere, and new employment was brought to Yarnton by the the district …
A History of the County of Oxford
… clothes for the schoolchildren. 56 From 1817 a room in the new parish clerk's house at the north-west end of Church Lane was used as a … materials, and giving each child a full suit of clothes on New Year's Day. The only assistance was £3 from the Fletcher …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the south-east corner of Yarnton west of King's bridge. A house stood c. 1200 on the Yarnton side of the boundary. 49 … 92 The increase was allegedly the consequence of building new cottages for poor families, who then 'over-filled the new cottages also'. 93 The temporary presence of railway …
A History of the County of Oxford
… had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit at the hundred court of Wootton by Richard, earl of Cornwall. Earl Edmund … remained quit of shire and hundred after 1281, under its new owner Rewley abbey. 18 The last known meeting of the … 1795 and 1806. 32 In 1839 all 16 parish cottages, said to house 84 people, 'half the labouring poor' in Yarnton, were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the payment of tithes, from which Rewley, as a Cistercian house, had been exempt. 69 Rewley abbey was dissolved in … as a service wing at the north-west corner of the new house, which was an imposing structure of coursed rubble limestone and ashlar, some of it re-used. The new house was a rectangular block of double-pile plan, with …
A History of the County of Oxford
… John Preedy's cottage in Yarnton to be used as a meeting house. 41 The cottage may have stood at the east end of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… drain, 14th-century. ConditionGood. Secular a(2). Manor House and outbuilding, 100 yards S.E. of the church. The House is of two storeys with tiled roofs. The W. part is a … and N. The chimney-stack has two diagonal shafts. a(28). Court House, on the N.E. side of the road, 60 yards S.E. of …