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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… where it leaves the parish at c. 160 m. The highest land is on the parish boundary, 210 m. where there is a ridge … Hill. 30 Flat and well drained, nearly all Yatesbury's land is suitable for ploughing. Large areas of open field … via the Avenue and a northsouth road along the parish's western boundary or via either of the Avebury roads. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… south of the Sands, N. division of Lancashire, 2 miles (W. S. W.) from Burton-in-Kendal; containing 322 inhabitants. … de Kemyers, or Cynyers, held the eighth part of a knight's fee in Yeland, of the fee of William de Lancaster, the … worship for Baptists. The rent of about fourteen acres of land, amounting to 14. 14., is chiefly distributed among the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… at Yelford by 1221. 99 In the later 13th century Yelford's incumbents were called rectors 1 and the living remained a … was sold in 1984. 14 In 1254 the living was valued at 20 s. (corrected to 26 s. 8 d.), 15 in 1291 at £2, and in 1341 … ½ a. of demesne corn and from 3 a. and another piece of land in Yelford field were payable to Bampton parish in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yelford Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. 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 … until inclosure in 1853. 19 In 1086 Yelford manor had land for 3 ploughs, 20 and there may have been other, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yelford Introduction YELFORD YELFORD, one of Oxfordshire's smallest rural parishes until it was included in 1932 in … to severe depopulation in the later Middle Ages, Yelford's west part became an inclosed estate in single ownership, … only for his inclosed estate, acquired some open-field land with the Walwyn family's Yelford estate in the mid 16th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… tenants of the former Grey manor paid suit to Hardwick's courts, 89 which until the 1580s nominated a separate … until inclosure in 1853, tenants of Wadham College's Yelford estate, descended from the Grey manor, were still … in later parochial arrangements, tenants of the open-field land being taxed with Hardwick and in the care of its …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Alwoldsbury (in Alvescot or Clanfield) and a piece of land belonging to the royal manor of Bampton, probably the 40 … in Gloucestershire, notably Southrop. 15 Later Walter's Domesday estate, sometimes described as the honor of … 20 and in 1279 Benet held Yelford in chief as knight's fee. 21 By 1285 he had been succeeded by a minor son, 22 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… Yelling 102. YELLING (D.f.). (O.S. 6 in. XXVI N.W.) Yelling is a parish and village 5 m. … to a nave of earlier date. Late in the 13th century the S. arcade and South Aisle were added, and c. 1300 the Chancel … doorway has chamfered jambs and a two-centred head. In the S. wall are two two-light windows, similar to those in the N. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… just over 900 hectares, occupies a narrow strip of land which widens at the E. end. Its W. boundary is formed by … Roman b(1) Roman settlement (?) (SP 595745), in the S. of the parish, on Boulder Clay at 125 m. above OD. A few … N. is a long narrow rectangular area orientated W.N.W.E.S.E., situated between three distinct blocks of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… of Narberth, county of Pembroke, South Wales, 4 miles (S. W.) from Narberth; containing 148 inhabitants. This parish … from Pembroke to Narberth, and comprises a small extent of land, all inclosed and cultivated. Culm is found in some … The living is a discharged rectory, rated in the king's books at 5. 3. 9., endowed with 400 private benefaction and …