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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… unit of linear measure that largely replaced the ELL. This old measure had been the standard before Edward III and was … Yearling [yerlyng; yerelyng; yearlinge] An animal a year old, or in its second year, and used especially of CATTLE, … obtained with either YOUNG FUSTIC (not very satisfactory), OLD FUSTIC, WELD or QUERCITRON. In the eighteenth century in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… mentioned are a royal chamber, a chapel, towers, an old chamber and inner and outer gates. It remained in royal … date were discovered ( BNFAS, 3 (1969), 30). c(8) Deer Park (centred SP 745445; Fig. 60), occupies the W. part of … on Boulder Clay between 95 m. and 110 m. above OD. The park is first mentioned in 1230 when William de Ferrers was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… a number of ponds of highly irregular and unusual form. In Old Pond Close (SP 876551) there is one which consists of two … appears to have been called Pottry Pond. Finally, N. of Old Pond Close, adjacent to the Pastures (SP 873552), are two … Newey, Ausway, Lower and Round Hey Fields. There were old enclosures all round the village. Around The Pastures (SP …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Stanbery). The Nave was re-built in 1862 probably on the old foundations, the chancel drastically restored at the same … chamfered and springing from modern attached shafts with old foliated capitals and moulded bases; the chamfered label …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the southern end of West Street in the 20th century. 89 A park was laid out to the south and east of Yarlington House … kitchen, buttery, cellar, and 13 chambers including the old, new, long, and gallery chambers. 35 When the house was … a deer leap in the 18th century. 78 It was known as the Old park in 1540 79 and thereafter was divided into large …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in grants of up to £ 2; the parish clerk was living in the old schoolhouse and receiving £8 a year from the charity. 75 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 67 Such a house was built, west of the site of the old one, but apparently not until the incumbency of Richard … copy in Bodl. G.A. Oxon. 8°147 (19); W. Hobart Bird, Old Oxon. Chs. 172; Pevsner, Oxon. 864-7. There are …
A History of the County of Oxford
… said to 'thrive here mightily', was grown in the manor park by a Mr. Ward of Northamptonshire, probably William Ward …
A History of the County of Oxford
… rebuilding of Yarnton Manor and by the laying out of its park. Until the late 18th century Church Lane and Mead Lane … of Church Lane, with a branch beginning north of the old school and emerging east of the Red Lion. 21 The … Arrow. 34 Yarnton was referred to in 1931 as a 'quiet old village stretching along a secondary road ... very little …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1611 by Sir Thomas Spencer. The house stood 'near to the old one by the church' 83 and part of an older house seems to … but by 1718 it was in 'ruinated condition' and the park had 'lately been destroyed'. 84 Demolition of the south … remodelled, and a new staircase installed, the base of the old stair turret becoming an entrance porch. Frize or Frice …