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A History of the County of Oxford
… a remarkable survival of immemorial custom into modern times. Oxey, or Oxhurst, mead (66 a.) and West mead (75 a.) … of Duke's Cut, linking the Thames near Oxey mead to the Oxford canal, 1 s. was collected from every barge for the use … years ago'. 39 Oxey mead, traversed in the 1930s by the Oxford northern bypass, was sold in 1939 to Oxfordshire …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Introduction YARNTON lies 4 miles (6.5 km.) north-west of Oxford, on the north bank of the river Thames. 41 The river … south formed the eastern boundary until 1788-9, when the Oxford canal took much of the stream bed. 42 Field boundaries … the site was occupied from the Iron Age to Romano-British times. Despite some fragments of medieval pottery in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… it was always among the highest. 27 Yarnton's proximity to Oxford on the Woodstock road presumably accounts for the very … parish paid a subscription to the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. Smallpox sufferers were taken to isolation hospitals …
A History of the County of Oxford
… it in 1936 to George Kolkhorst, Reader in Spanish at Oxford University. On his death in 1959 it was bought by the … in the south-east of the parish, immediately west of the Oxford-Woodstock road, was, like Paternoster farm, part of … known thereafter as Jackson's farm, to Merton College, Oxford, to provide four scholarships. The farmhouse was built …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 40 In 1828 John Fordred, a Wesleyan minister from Oxford, applied for a licence for John Preedy's cottage in … mention has been found. 43 In the 1830s Henry Bulteel of Oxford preached at Baptist meetings in Yarnton. Although only … 44 From the mid 19th century nonconformist preachers from Oxford were attracting a sufficient following to affect …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… or castles occupied by the chieftains of feudal times. The most considerable ruin is Blackhouse, seated in a … sanguinary conflict between some rival clans in the feudal times; and two large upright stones are supposed to indicate …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… holy days and in Lent, and communion was celebrated four times. 69 Yatesbury was served in plurality with Cherhill …