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A History of the County of Oxford
… Fletcher, by deed dated 1823, gave £30 a year to the parish, of which £10 was to be distributed to the poor in … to poor adults, and £1 in cakes to their children. The parish clerk received £8 a year, and the remaining £7 was to … amongst c. 20 people in grants of up to £ 2; the parish clerk was living in the old schoolhouse and receiving …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a working farmer. He kept the first known school in the parish and his pupils included the puritan divine, John Ball … 75 seems to have had little contact with the parish. John Goad, 1646-60, was similarly deprived of his … century. 79 Although Thomas Gregory of Hordley in Wootton parish, vicar 1761-80, gave the entire income of the living …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The presence in Yarnton of detached parts of Begbroke parish, 14 and the sharing of lot meadows along the Thames, … a. of arable. 16 There were 52 yardlands recorded in the parish in 1279, but by the 17th century there were said to be … the manor farm, another known as Alleluia farm. Half the parish remained uninclosed. 22 The early inclosures seem to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 18th century, and the vicar reported in 1768 that the parish children were so backward that he had difficulty … and by voluntary subscriptions. The teacher was the parish clerk. 53 A day school started in 1814 was in 1815 … for the schoolchildren. 56 From 1817 a room in the new parish clerk's house at the north-west end of Church Lane was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… bank of the river Thames. 41 The river forms the southern parish boundary, and a tributary stream known as Rowel brook … Begbroke on the north. A large detached part of Begbroke parish (118 a.) lay in the east of Yarnton in the area known … Frise in the late 19th century. 51 The terrain of the parish is mostly fairly flat, rising gently to 61 m. at the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and early 17th by malt or malt money received from the parish's farmers. 20 By 1800 and probably earlier a rate was … of the poor were chosen annually by rota from the parish's leading farmers. In 1828, 1831, and 1835 both overseers were women. 24 The parish paid for dinners after the Michaelmas and Easter …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Frice farm, comprising c. 150 a. in the south-east of the parish, immediately west of the Oxford-Woodstock road, was, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… (O.S. 6 in. (a)VII, S.W., (b)XII, N.W.) Yarpole is a parish and village 4 m. N.N.W. of Leominster. The church is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish Church of St. Leonard (Plate 188) stands in the S. part of the parish. The walls are of local sandstone rubble with …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Yarrow - Zetland Y Yarrow YARROW, a parish, in the county of Selkirk, 9 miles (W.) from Selkirk; … considerable antiquity, was originally designated as the parish of St. Mary; its present name was acquired from the … about the middle of the 17th century, since which time the parish has invariably retained the name of that river. The …
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 … a good bed of Lower Lincolnshire Limestone outcrops in the parish; the large number of stonemasons living here in the … of Stamford ( Mercury, 21 Oct.). Ecclesiastical (1) The Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene (Fig. 219; Plate 32) …