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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 … boundaries separate Yarnton from Cassington on the west and from Begbroke on the north. A large detached part of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 3379 inhabitants. This township, which includes Upper and Lower Yeadon, and Henshaw, comprises about 1730 acres, chiefly high … pasture; the surface is watered by copious springs, and the substratum abounds with good building-stone. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 58 lies 3 miles (4.75 km.) south of Witney and 3 miles east of Bampton, 59 The village, noted for its … including assertions that there were two Yelfords, West and East, the former belonging in some way to Bampton, the … tenants of Yelford's residual open fields, for taxation and other purposes, had become the responsibility of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Vaenor Isav Y Yerbeston YERBESTON, a parish, in the union and hundred of Narberth, county of Pembroke, South Wales, 4 … situated near the turnpike-road from Pembroke to Narberth, and comprises a small extent of land, all inclosed and … as the scene of a desperate battle between the invading Saxons, and the ancient Britons under Conan ab Seisyllt, in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Mary), a parish, in the hundred of Stodden, union and county of Bedford, 4 miles (E.) from Higham-Ferrers; … it was frequently assailed; and upon the arrival of the Saxons it experienced considerable devastation in the wars … the principal settlements of those rapacious invaders, the Danes, who kept possession of it till Atheistan demolished …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… area (W. of the Ouse), the Central area (between the Ouse and the Foss), and the Walmgate area (E. of the Foss). In the following … in 1068 as a motte and bailey, but it was destroyed by the Danes in September 1069 and rebuilt before the end of that …