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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… a dry ditch with a right-angled bend. (3). Showle Court, house, outbuilding and moat, 1,160 yards N.N.E. of the church. The House is of two storeys with cellars; the walls are … some exposed ceiling-beams. The Outbuilding, N.W. of the house, is timber-framed, with a thatched roof. It was built …
A History of the County of Somerset
… marls at Woolston. 79 The turnpike road from Ansford to Sherborne passed through the north and east of the parish, following an earlier route from Bruton to Sherborne recorded in 1719. It was turnpiked by the Sherborne … 85 There was formerly a green south of the medieval manor house and church. 86 Most houses date from the 18th and 19th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… account for the school and for the repair of the clerk's house. In 1971 the charity provided £15 a year distributed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an endowed vicarage of 5 marks a year, derived from a house formerly the chaplain's and all altar offerings except … for morning prayers ( £2), and rent from the vicarage house ( £2). 60 In 1808 the income was only c. £40, largely … were commuted to a rent charge of £290. 63 The vicarage house, which stood north of the church fronting Church Lane, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 56 From 1817 a room in the new parish clerk's house at the north-west end of Church Lane was used as a … given an annuity of £5 for repairs to the parish clerk's house, any surplus to be used for the school; £3 or £4 of … and a hall; the Church Lane school became a private house. In 1983 c. 130 children attended the school. 70 In …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the south-east corner of Yarnton west of King's bridge. A house stood c. 1200 on the Yarnton side of the boundary. 49 … were pumps at the Grapes inn and at the parish clerk's house at the top of Church Lane. 74 The parish was connected … centre of settlement, leaving the church, vicarage, manor house, and Mead Farm isolated at the bottom of Church Lane. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1795 and 1806. 32 In 1839 all 16 parish cottages, said to house 84 people, 'half the labouring poor' in Yarnton, were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the payment of tithes, from which Rewley, as a Cistercian house, had been exempt. 69 Rewley abbey was dissolved in … since c. 1526 and who was presumably resident at the manor house, retained the tenancy under his friend Owen until 1541. … Yarnton Manor was built c. 1611 by Sir Thomas Spencer. The house stood 'near to the old one by the church' 83 and part …
A History of the County of Oxford
… John Preedy's cottage in Yarnton to be used as a meeting house. 41 The cottage may have stood at the east end of …