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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 area known as the Marshes, and a small detached close, Oxford Close (3 a.), lay north-east of the junction of Sandy …
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 England
… in the union of Witney, hundred of Bampton, county of Oxford, 3 miles (S.) from Witney; containing 16 inhabitants. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the Lenthalls from the later 17th century were almost all Oxford graduates and few, if any, were resident. Henry …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Wadham's nominal lessees, such as Mary Mountford of Oxford in the later 17th century and the Groves of Woodstock … another sale at Yelford included 68 dairy cattle and 100 Oxford Down ewes. 81 Despite the enlarged arable area there …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Rickless Hill (87 m.) and near Home wood ( c. 90 m.), and Oxford clay the hill slopes. 80 The problem of flooding, not …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… and the Rev. D. Williams, late fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, an eminent divine and critic, who distinguished …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of which the manorial rights belong to University College, Oxford: the hamlet is much scattered. James I. halted at a …