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A History of the County of Sussex
… lands in Yapton in 1316. 9 There is no evidence for a park in the parish before c. 1813, when parkland extended south of Yapton Place as far as the line of the future Portsmouth-Arundel … usually being flint and brick, with roofs of thatch, tile, or slate; one house near the school in North End Road and …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Yard - Yew Yard [y'rd; yrd; yerde; yerd; yer; yearde; yeard; y'd; yd; yarde; … was still in use into the early-modern period. The yard or VIRGA (the Latin equivalent) was 36 INCH or 3 FOOT long, though sometimes by custom for some TEXTILEs …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Ferrers was granted a licence to crenellate his dwelling place of Le Morende. In 1363 the manor passed to the Crown … It is not certain whether these are part of the castle or of the settlement remains (4). d(4) Settlement Remains (SP … date were discovered ( BNFAS, 3 (1969), 30). c(8) Deer Park (centred SP 745445; Fig. 60), occupies the W. part of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… wood fragment carved with interlaced circles and foliage or fruit, 15th-century. In towerstone bowl with gadrooned … century and of two storeys, timber-framed and with tile or slate-covered roofs. Most of the buildings have exposed … external framing and internal ceiling-beams. ConditionGood or fairly good. (4). Cottage, 100 yards W. of the church, has …
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 … which eventually prevailed and the three daughters or their heirs were declared coheirs. The manor was then held … 16 CHARITIES FOR THE POOR None known. Ekwall, Eng. Place-Names, 187, 517. This article was completed in 1995. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… gifts and recipients, and those not regular churchgoers or whose conduct during the past year had been 'wicked' …
A History of the County of Oxford
… College. 72 George Blunt, 1544-7, and William Milton, or Gibbon, 1547-64, were former monks. 73 Hugh Evans, … until the 19th century. Most vicars employed curates or travelled out from Oxford to conduct services. Philip … cleaning in 1913 by F. C. Eden. A further restoration took place in 1971, by D. King. 15 When the south-west windows of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 28 Lot meadows flanking the river were never ploughed or inclosed, and they present a remarkable survival of … hay led to the abandonment of lot drawing, which last took place in 1978. 42 The hay was thereafter sold as one lot and … 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
… difficulty teaching them the catechism. 50 A school for 6 or 8 children, in existence by 1780, 51 may have been the … for the maintenance of the monuments in the Spencer chapel or, if not needed there, for Yarnton's poor, 55 was usually … clerk's house, any surplus to be used for the school; £3 or £4 of that money was usually combined with money raised by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 49 The name was preserved in the 17th century in Frize or Frice farm and grounds, 50 and that corner of Yarnton was … rebuilding of Yarnton Manor and by the laying out of its park. Until the late 18th century Church Lane and Mead Lane … Yarnton, formerly Erdington, is said to mean a dwelling place or Earda's farm. 80 The earliest documentary evidence …