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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 … OCHRE. However, it is also found in many places in the world. As an iron oxide, its colour varies widely. In the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… c SP 74 SW, d SP 74 SE) The long, narrow parish, once part of Potterspury, stretches from the R. Tove on the E. boundary … Roman Road 1e, Watling Street, see Appendix. Medieval and Later The leg of a medieval grey ware vessel was found in the … above OD. The site has been entirely destroyed by modern housing, but air photographs taken in 1947 (RAF VAP …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… with Bedfordshire which forms its S.E. side. It consists of land sloping generally N. between 110 m. and 66 m. above … were found when the area was ploughed during the Second World War (NM Records). Fig. 164 Yardley Hastings (23) Dam … BNFAS, 6 (1971), 19, Yardley Hastings (13)). Medieval and Later A complete St. Neots ware jug is said to have been …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… (O.S. 6 in. XXXIV, N.E.) Yarkhill is a parish 7 m. E.N.E. of Hereford. The church is the principal monument. Capler Camp in the Parish of Woolhope. Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. John the Baptist stands in the S. part of the parish. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Yarlington YARLINGTON Yarlington in 1838 The parish of Yarlington, the derivation of whose name is uncertain, 73 … in 1719. It was turnpiked by the Sherborne and Shaftesbury trust in 1753 80 and field boundaries in the south-east and … described in 1836 as 'newly built' and in 1846 as housing 'a superior village school'. 12 In 1847 two day …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Sir Thomas Spencer by will dated 1684 left a rent charge of £7 a year on Windmill field for repairs to the family … allowed to fall into disrepair because the original terms of the endowment had not been complied with. Despite local … 1979 was distributed to the poor. 77 By a declaration of trust dated 1980 the Oldfield charity was created to promote …
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 … transferred the advowson to the Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, which thereafter shared presentation to the united … in the diocese and not found again in Yarnton until the later 19th century. 79 Although Thomas Gregory of Hordley in …
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 … by inclosure in the 15th and 16th centuries. 18 By the later 13th century land perhaps lay in two fields; in 1272 … A Yarnton grazier, Charles Glanville (d. 1690), also held property at Charltonon-Otmoor and Woodstock, and was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Education Education Hugh Evans, vicar of Yarnton 1579-1618, and John Goad, vicar 1646-60, kept … at the vicarage. 49 No other school is known before the later 18th century, and the vicar reported in 1768 that the … in existence by 1780, 51 may have been the precursor of a Sunday school established in 1783. 52 The latter was …
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 … was opened to Witney and Fairford. 72 During the Second World War marshalling yards were built for the storage and … the south-east. The origin of Spring Hill Farm, a manorial property, is unknown. Architectural evidence indicates that …