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A History of the County of Oxford
… a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and 1161, of Yarnton chapel to Eynsham abbey. 43 Yarnton was … of the then lord, Sir William Spencer, presented. Oxford University presented in 1646 on the grounds that Sir … George Clarke (d. 1736), fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Clarke devised it to the college, which failed to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Yarnton of detached parts of Begbroke parish, 14 and the sharing of lot meadows along the Thames, may indicate … of Duke's Cut, linking the Thames near Oxey mead to the Oxford canal, 1 s. was collected from every barge for the use … years ago'. 39 Oxey mead, traversed in the 1930s by the Oxford northern bypass, was sold in 1939 to Oxfordshire …
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, and a tributary stream known as Rowel brook in the north and … south formed the eastern boundary until 1788-9, when the Oxford canal took much of the stream bed. 42 Field boundaries …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Steeple Barton, Cassington, Hampton Gay, Rousham, and Whitehill (in Tackley). 16 That Yarnton was referred to … it was always among the highest. 27 Yarnton's proximity to Oxford on the Woodstock road presumably accounts for the very … parish paid a subscription to the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. Smallpox sufferers were taken to isolation hospitals …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Manor and other estates Manor and other estates In 1005 Ealdorman … it in 1936 to George Kolkhorst, Reader in Spanish at Oxford University. On his death in 1959 it was bought by the … in the south-east of the parish, immediately west of the Oxford-Woodstock road, was, like Paternoster farm, part of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 35 The Spencers married into Roman Catholic families, 36 and in 1646 Sir William Spencer (d. 1657) was allegedly … 40 In 1828 John Fordred, a Wesleyan minister from Oxford, applied for a licence for John Preedy's cottage in … mention has been found. 43 In the 1830s Henry Bulteel of Oxford preached at Baptist meetings in Yarnton. Although only …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 3379 inhabitants. This township, which includes Upper and Lower Yeadon, and Henshaw, comprises about 1730 acres, chiefly high … in the union of Witney, hundred of Bampton, county of Oxford, 3 miles (S.) from Witney; containing 16 inhabitants. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 13th century Yelford's incumbents were called rectors 1 and the living remained a rectory until 1976, when it was absorbed with Northmoor, Standlake, and Stanton Harcourt in the united benefice of Lower … the Lenthalls from the later 17th century were almost all Oxford graduates and few, if any, were resident. Henry …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1853. 19 In 1086 Yelford manor had land for 3 ploughs, 20 and there may have been other, unrecorded, land in the … of Wadham's nominal lessees, such as Mary Mountford of Oxford in the later 17th century and the Groves of Woodstock … another sale at Yelford included 68 dairy cattle and 100 Oxford Down ewes. 81 Despite the enlarged arable area there …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 58 lies 3 miles (4.75 km.) south of Witney and 3 miles east of Bampton, 59 The village, noted for its … including assertions that there were two Yelfords, West and East, the former belonging in some way to Bampton, the … Rickless Hill (87 m.) and near Home wood ( c. 90 m.), and Oxford clay the hill slopes. 80 The problem of flooding, not …