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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 … south formed the eastern boundary until 1788-9, when the Oxford canal took much of the stream bed. 42 Field boundaries … was used to house labourers 13 and was usually held with Hall Farm, Begbroke. 14 Extensive farm buildings south of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 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
… it in 1936 to George Kolkhorst, Reader in Spanish at Oxford University. On his death in 1959 it was bought by the … at that time was well preserved, notably the carved hall screen, much panelling, and several richly decorated … 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
… 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 … 44 From the mid 19th century nonconformist preachers from Oxford were attracting a sufficient following to affect …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… surrounded by a spacious and richly wooded demesne. Newton Hall and Newhall are also good houses. The village of Gifford … was descended from a branch of the Newtons, of Newton Hall.See Gifford. Yetholm YETHOLM, a parish, in the district …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Ib, now two cottages. A stop-chamfered axial beam in the hall is inscribed '1591' and may indicate the building date …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is interwoven with the history of Yealand-Conyers. Yealand Hall, an ancient dwelling at Yealand-Storrs in the township, … in the union of Witney, hundred of Bampton, county of Oxford, 3 miles (S.) from Witney; containing 16 inhabitants. …
A Dictionary of London
… "Aula Dacorum," the Guildhalla Teutonicorum, called "Olde Hall" by Stow in his description of Dowgate Ward (Memorials, … "Olde Halle" with the "Guildhalla Teutonicorum," the hall of the Hanse merchants. See Steelyard; Olde Halle. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 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
… 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 …