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A History of the County of Oxford
… Charities 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 …
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 daughter church of the abbey, and it was still occasionally called a chapel … tithes ( £32), payments for morning prayers ( £2), and rent from the vicarage house ( £2). 60 In 1808 the income was …
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 … amount of cottage land. The 31 villein yardlanders paid rent of 4 s. each and provided services at the lord's will; 7 … the Oxford area. 61 For the subsidy of 1306 Rewley abbey's assessment (7 s. 9 ½ d.) was by far the highest, the biggest …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Education Education Hugh Evans, vicar of Yarnton 1579-1618, and John Goad, vicar 1646-60, kept … in existence by 1780, 51 may have been the precursor of a Sunday school established in 1783. 52 The latter was … Sunday school had at that time 13 boys and 14 girls. 54 A rent charge on Windmill field of £7 a year, devised by Sir …
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 river forms the southern parish … boundary until 1788-9, when the Oxford canal took much of the stream bed. 42 Field boundaries separate Yarnton from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Local government Local government Yarnton, as part of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit at the hundred court of Wootton by Richard, earl of Cornwall. Earl Edmund held …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of Dorchester, later bishop of Lincoln, who eventually returned the abbey's other estates … College farm. 12 The tithes were commuted in 1845 for a rent of £250. 13 M. Gelling, Early Charters of Thames Valley, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Yarrow - Zetland Y Yarrow YARROW, a parish, in the county of Selkirk, 9 miles (W.) from Selkirk; containing, with the village of Ettrick-Bridge and part of Yarrowford, 1264 inhabitants. … the two villages are occupied by the inhabitants at rack-rent, in portions varying from two to fifty acres each. The …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Yatesbury YATESBURY Yatesbury village stands 7 km. east of Calne. 27 The parish, 1,674 a. (677 ha.), was absorbed by … which survived in the later 19th century. 29 For much of its length the boundary is marked by roads. Chalk outcrops … whole parish, which lies on a plateau at the western edge of the Marlborough Downs. A head stream of the Kennet flows …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Yettington Yeading YEADING, a hamlet, in the parish of Hayes, union of Uxbridge, hundred of Elthorne, county of Middlesex; … structure. There is a place of worship for Baptists. The rent of about fourteen acres of land, amounting to 14. 14., …