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A History of the County of Oxford
… 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of Dorchester, later bishop of Lincoln, who eventually returned the abbey's other estates … 9 Eynsham abbey held Yarnton rectory, which comprised the great tithes. 10 At the Dissolution the rectory passed to the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Yarrow - Zetland Y Yarrow YARROW, a parish, in the county of Selkirk, 9 miles (W.) from Selkirk; containing, with the village of Ettrick-Bridge and part of Yarrowford, 1264 inhabitants. … Faldshope hill, but they are more remarkable for their great age than for the stateliness of their growth. There are …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Yarwell 24 YARWELL (Fig. 218) Yarwell is a parish of 490 hectares on the W. of the R. Nene. It has always been a chapelry of Nassington, and served by a curate. Yarwell is not named …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Yatesbury YATESBURY Yatesbury village stands 7 km. east of Calne. 27 The parish, 1,674 a. (677 ha.), was absorbed by … his estate at Yatesbury was divided between his mother's great-grandnephew Ralph Butler and her grandniece Joan, the … a. 53 In 1939 his trustees sold 169 a. to the Secretary of State for Air for R.A.F. Yatesbury, and in 1972 sold the rest …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… 6 in. XLVII, N.W.) Yatton is a small parish 4 m. N.E. of Ross. The disused chapel, dating from the 12th century, … are the principal monuments. Ecclesiastical (1). Chapel of All Saints, near the middle of the parish, was built in 1841 but contains the following …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Yettington Yeading YEADING, a hamlet, in the parish of Hayes, union of Uxbridge, hundred of Elthorne, county of … though much decayed, is still of respectable appearance. A great cattle-market is held on the fourth Wednesday in every … which, as well as the adjacent country, are in a high state of cultivation. On the south-east are three remarkable …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yelford Church CHURCH. Masonry of the 12th century or earlier re-used in the church porch … Standlake, and Stanton Harcourt in the united benefice of Lower Windrush. 2 Bampton, to whose large pre-Conquest … registers in 1700, apparently caused controversy because of fears that the ground might be unconsecrated. 10 In the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yelford's medieval open fields probably covered much of the area of the Hastings family's inclosed estate depicted in 1625, 18 … Top. Oxon. c 118, f. 7 and v., mentioning both Mr. Smith's Great Linthorn and Mr. Hastings's Linthorn. Cf. also Wadham …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yelford Introduction YELFORD YELFORD, one of Oxfordshire's smallest rural parishes until it was … purposes, had become the responsibility of Hardwick's officers, while the inclosed estate, held entirely by the … was assessed independently; disputes with Hardwick's officers seem to have arisen after John Hastings, usually …
A History of the County of Oxford
… LOCAL GOVERNMENT. In 1279 there was a twice-yearly view of frankpledge for the Hastings manor, and the Greys' manor in Hardwick, Brighthampton, and Yelford had view of frankpledge and other liberties, including gallows. 86 … land being taxed with Hardwick and in the care of its officers 94 while the Lenthall estate was governed from …