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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of a grove of oaks, strongly indicating that these works were constructed by the Druids; and in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… demesne was worked by 4 servi with 2 ploughs, while the tenants (3 villeins and 3 bordars) had ½ plough; … to 50 s. since the Conquest. 33 By 1279 Yelford men were tenants of three manors. The Hastings manor, its demesne … perhaps 4 yardlands; rents yielded £1, and the villein's works were valued at 9 s. By 1305 there were 6 free tenants …
A History of the County of Oxford
… way to Bampton, the latter to Hardwick. 62 Evidently the tenants of Yelford's residual open fields, for taxation and … of flooding, not entirely solved by extensive drainage works in the area in the mid 19th century, 81 probably …
A History of the County of Oxford
… confusion with the hundred court. 88 Sixteenth-century tenants of the former Grey manor paid suit to Hardwick's … 91 In the 1840s, and presumably until inclosure in 1853, tenants of Wadham College's Yelford estate, descended from … rest of Yelford persisted in later parochial arrangements, tenants of the open-field land being taxed with Hardwick and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… house to B. Babington Smith in 1952. 61 Of the Lenthalls' tenants at Yelford from the mid 17th century few were … a recent sale. 8 The Walwyns were not resident, but their tenants the Moseleys were one of the three families paying …
A History of the County of Oxford
… been found. 62 Several generations of the Baker family, tenants of Manor farm from the 1760s to c. 1820, were …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… in the parish of Llangyvelach. There are several coal-works in operation, but the number of persons employed is … Methodists; a day-school in connexion with the lead-works; and three Sunday-schools, one of them belonging to the … collieries, and the mine-patches of the Hrwaun iron-works, are within the limits of the parish, which forms a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… on a rustic arcade. At Lendal tower, adjoining the water-works, is an establishment of hot, cold, tepid, and vapour … quadrangle. In 1836 a very large addition, called the New Works, was completed, at an expense of 203,530, including a … architecture; it contains a valuable collection of works on theology and general literature. The recent removal …