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A History of the County of Oxford
… College. 72 George Blunt, 1544-7, and William Milton, or Gibbon, 1547-64, were former monks. 73 Hugh Evans, … until the 19th century. Most vicars employed curates or travelled out from Oxford to conduct services. Philip … and, from 1740, rector of Begbroke, visited Yarnton two or three times a week, catechized throughout the year, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 28 Lot meadows flanking the river were never ploughed or inclosed, and they present a remarkable survival of immemorial custom into modern times. Oxey, or Oxhurst, mead (66 a.) and West mead (75 a.) lie along the … the strips and shots being marked at their ends by pegs or stones. In each mead an area known as the tithals, or
A History of the County of Oxford
… 49 The name was preserved in the 17th century in Frize or Frice farm and grounds, 50 and that corner of Yarnton was … footpath running eastwards from Worton towards Church Lane or Mead Lane. 62 Pre-inclosure maps of Cassington do not … occupation which may have persisted into the 13th or 14th century. 78 The evidence is insufficient to determine …
A History of the County of Oxford
… financed in the later 16th century and early 17th by malt or malt money received from the parish's farmers. 20 By 1800 … relieved in 1803 were likely to have been travelling to or from the city. 28 In the later 18th century and early 19th … was well established by the later 18th century. Ten or twelve were employed initially, at a cost to the parish of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… hide, which presumably merged with the larger estate on or before Odo's death in 1097. Yarnton was held thereafter of … 92 It seems to have been bought in the late 19th century or early 20th by Stephen Howse, and sold by him shortly after … of the old stair turret becoming an entrance porch. Frize or Frice farm, comprising c. 150 a. in the south-east of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… the main roof are mostly modern, but those of the lantern or bell-chamber are partly old; three sides of the lantern … and of two storeys, timber-framed, and with stone, tile or slate-covered roofs. Most of the buildings have exposed … timber-framing and internal ceiling-beams. ConditionGood or fairly good, unless noted. a(3). House, on the S. side of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… is associated with reminiscences of deeper interest, or more closely identified with the finest strains of … a mile and a half in circuit, by a narrow neck of land, or sandbank, thrown up by opposite currents of two small … they are chiefly of the Cheviot breed, with about 1200 or 1500 of the black-faced kind, which was once the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… all the larger and fashionable houses were copyhold or freehold; the only house of more than average status built …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… although on the east its roughly straight lines link or approach several summits. There is a barrow on it in the … and a northsouth road along the parish's western boundary or via either of the Avebury roads. The village could be … of both farmsteads were replaced in the 20th century. Two or more cottages stood south-east of the site of Yatesbury …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… the middle of the 12th century. At some date in the 16th or 17th century much of the N. wall fell or was re-built; the bell-turret was added or re-built c. 1600 and there appears to have been a S. …
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