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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… the lands became forfeited to the crown, and part of them were granted to Sir Walter Scott, ancestor of the dukes of … pointing out the spot where seven brothers of that family were killed. A portion, also, of Elibank Castle still … On Dryhope Haugh was a large cairn, of which the stones were removed some years since to furnish dykes for …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… below the ground surface. No tessellated or tiled floors were uncovered but pottery of the 2nd and 3rd centuries and a fine capital (Plate 24) were discovered. No other details are known. From the field … cist, is also recorded. Associated with the burial were fragments of Roman pottery, a bronze necklet, a bronze …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… three-room buildings of the 17th century, including (11), were copyhold. In the 19th century all the larger and fashionable houses were copyhold or freehold; the only house of more than … centuries probably indicates the period when the quarries were most active. Of these masons William Sanderson, who died …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the parish, and perhaps west of the village where fields were called sleights in the earlier 19th century and the land … London road and those flanked by buildings in the village, were the only roads to have been tarmacadamed. Yatesbury c. … the demesne farmstead and that now called Manor Farm, were built a short distance north of the site, and customary …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… of the earlier chapel being suffered to remain; if this were so, the consequent addition of one bay to the arcade … though not in the same build, the West Tower and spire were built. The South Porch is also of this period, but … and then containing remains of a heart; two glass jars were also found, probably once containing the viscera, all c. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… additions to the name. The Conyers and Redmayne families were long connected with Yealand; and subsequently the … of a grove of oaks, strongly indicating that these works were constructed by the Druids; and in the neighbourhood are … a belfry, was dedicated in 1241; and several indulgences were granted to it by Richard de Breuse, patron of a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by 1221. 99 In the later 13th century Yelford's incumbents were called rectors 1 and the living remained a rectory until … claimed such rights over a wide area in 1405-6, 5 there were no known medieval burials in Yelford; 6 in the 16th … century Bampton was the usual burial place, 8 but there were also burials at Shifford, Standlake, and Ducklington, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the ploughland and 4 yardlands recorded in 1279, there were probably still c. 15 yardlands in Yelford. The 11 … with Yelford manor. 31 Within the parish in 1625 there were only a few small coppices, covering c. 5 a. 32 In 1086 … 60 s. to 50 s. since the Conquest. 33 By 1279 Yelford men were tenants of three manors. The Hastings manor, its demesne …
A History of the County of Oxford
… over parish boundaries, including assertions that there were two Yelfords, West and East, the former belonging in … (later College Farm) 65 both the house and attached estate were regarded as 'in another district', that is Hardwick. 66 … that distinction, 67 so Yelford's boundaries in 1848 were those of the inclosed estate of 1625. 68 Although in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… College's Yelford estate, descended from the Grey manor, were still attending Hardwick's courts. 92 Mid 16th- century … 11 yardlands and by then regarded as the whole of Yelford, were reduced on appeal: it was found that Yelford had paid … sometimes c. £8 was spent, but in several years no poor were recorded. 97 From 1834 Yelford belonged to Witney union, …