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A History of the County of Sussex
… Yapton 93 lies on the coastal plain south-west of Arundel and c. 2 miles (3 km.) from the sea. In 1881 it had 1,740 a. and was irregular in shape. 94 Between 1882 and 1891 it was … Main and Bilsham roads was called Bognor bridge by 1886. 56 Drove Lane mentioned from 1542 57 was presumably the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… shape, measuring 2.5 km. from north to south at its widest and 3 km. from east to west. The only natural boundary is a … of the river Cam in the south-east; parts of the eastern and western boundaries are marked by roads. 74 The boundaries … by 1657), Thomas (d. 1691), and George Chafyn (d. 1766). 56 In 1746 trustees conveyed Woolston to James Harding. 57 By …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and 1161, of Yarnton chapel to Eynsham abbey. 43 Yarnton was probably a daughter church of the abbey, and it was still occasionally called a chapel in the 14th … College and, from 1986, with the duke of Marlborough. 56 The church was served by chaplains until appropriation, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Yarnton of detached parts of Begbroke parish, 14 and the sharing of lot meadows along the Thames, may indicate … seems to have comprised c. 25 a. exclusive of meadow and pasture, 15 and in 1617 a 2-yardland estate contained 44 … 1 keeper of the oxen, and 1 dairyman and his assistant. 56 Under Rewley abbey the amount of demesne arable was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Education Hugh Evans, vicar of Yarnton 1579-1618, and John Goad, vicar 1646-60, kept small private schools at … 49 No other school is known before the later 18th century, and the vicar reported in 1768 that the parish children were … 55 was usually spent on clothes for the schoolchildren. 56 From 1817 a room in the new parish clerk's house at the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Thames. 41 The river forms the southern parish boundary, and a tributary stream known as Rowel brook in the north and as Kingsbridge brook in the south formed the eastern … flooded and water could not be drained from the village. 56 Improvements were made in the 20th century by changes at …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Steeple Barton, Cassington, Hampton Gay, Rousham, and Whitehill (in Tackley). 16 That Yarnton was referred to … as a demesne manor. 17 Yarnton remained quit of shire and hundred after 1281, under its new owner Rewley abbey. 18 … vestry ordered a register of hirings to be kept. After £56 had been spent in 1829-30 the vestry sought to limit its …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… several summits. There is a barrow on it in the south and, also in the south, it was marked by many stones and mounds which survived in the later 19th century. 29 For … the parish church, and a rectory house were built nearby. 56 Yatesbury Manor was built in the late 17th century or the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 13th century Yelford's incumbents were called rectors 1 and the living remained a rectory until 1976, when it was absorbed with Northmoor, Standlake, and Stanton Harcourt in the united benefice of Lower … nave and chancel retained low-pitched ceilings in 1850; 56 the nave ceiling is of c. 1500, oak, with moulded purlins …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1853. 19 In 1086 Yelford manor had land for 3 ploughs, 20 and there may have been other, unrecorded, land in the … estates there comprised a ploughland, 10½ yardlands, and some odd acres, a total of perhaps 15 yardlands. 21 In … pasture close depicted in 1625 was ploughed before 1629 56 and, although the Lenthalls imposed the standard penalties …