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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… the most important in the Dictionary Archive being a unit of linear measure that largely replaced the ELL. This old … 3 FOOT long, though sometimes by custom for some TEXTILEs of 37 inches. The term appears in all sections of the … Archeology (online). Yellow wax BEES WAX in its natural state as obtained from the hive, it was widely available in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 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 … carved chapel screen, pulpit, and reading desk. 1 A large state pew in similar style was placed at the south-west …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Economic history Economic history The presence in Yarnton of detached parts of Begbroke parish, 14 and the sharing of lot meadows along the Thames, may indicate that the …
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 forms the southern parish … Spencer of Yarnton. 41 His son, Sir Thomas, kept lordly state at Yarnton Manor, attracting minor local gentry into …
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 always been a chapelry of Nassington, and served by a curate. Yarwell is not named …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Yatesbury YATESBURY Yatesbury village stands 7 km. east of Calne. 27 The parish, 1,674 a. (677 ha.), was absorbed by … and 696 a. 53 In 1939 his trustees sold 169 a. to the Secretary of State for Air for R.A.F. Yatesbury, and in 1972 sold the rest …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Yettington Yeading YEADING, a hamlet, in the parish of Hayes, union of Uxbridge, hundred of Elthorne, county of Middlesex; … which, as well as the adjacent country, are in a high state of cultivation. On the south-east are three remarkable …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yelford Church CHURCH. Masonry of the 12th century or earlier re-used in the church porch … Standlake, and Stanton Harcourt in the united benefice of Lower Windrush. 2 Bampton, to whose large pre-Conquest … registers in 1700, apparently caused controversy because of fears that the ground might be unconsecrated. 10 In the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yelford's medieval open fields probably covered much of the area of the Hastings family's inclosed estate depicted in 1625, 18 … together with Yelford field to the east which formed part of Hardwick's fields until inclosure in 1853. 19 In 1086 …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Y Yerbeston YERBESTON, a parish, in the union and hundred of Narberth, county of Pembroke, South Wales, 4 miles (S. W.) from Narberth; … of which were richly ornamented and in an excellent state of preservation. The church has been pulled down, and a …