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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… and also the sheep-walks in the hilly pastures. The farm-houses are well built; and improvements in the … in implements of husbandry have been adopted. The farm houses and offices are substantial and commodious, and … a statute-fair is held every Monday morning for hiring farm servants. A penny-post office has been established; and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 1st inscribed 'hi' in black-letter, a tall and narrow bell, medieval; 2nd inscribed 'Cum voco venite Edwarde Lisle … a reset mullioned window of the 17th century. (13) Manor Farm (Fig. 223), two storeys, class Ib, early 17th-century, … and turned balusters of the mid 18th century. The group of Farm Buildings (Fig. 6) consists of a mid 19th-century barn …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… cathedral, the demesne farmstead and that now called Manor Farm, were built a short distance north of the site, and … The land of Yatesbury was possibly part of the large estate called Calne held by the king from the 9th or 10th … tenor were replaced by bells cast in 1636, and the middle bell was replaced by one cast by a member of the Cor family …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… part of screen modern. (2). Chapel (disused) at Chapel Farm (Plate 8), 1,000 yards W. of the modern chapel. The … 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 … of two trefoiled lights in a two-centred head. The timber bell-turret, over the W. end of the nave, is weather-boarded …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… The third stage has a similar light in the N. wall. The bell-chamber has in each wall a window of two tiers of three … probably 18th-century. ConditionGood. Secular (2). Manor Farm, house, 130 yards N.N.W. of the church, is of two …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… a stone plinth. ConditionGood, restored. (3). Moorhampton Farm, house, about 1 m. W. of the old church, is of two …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… distance from the village. In the township is Yeavering Bell, a lofty conical mountain rising to the height of more … of ease. The Hon. Robert Boyle, in 1699, bequeathed an estate now producing more than 70 per annum, for teaching 26 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… which in 1818 comprised those from W. J. Lenthall's estate (estimated at 315 a.), from Wadham College's Yelford farm (160 a.), and from another 80 a. in the open fields of … let; the tenant for much of the later 19th century was a farm labourer who also served as parish clerk and in 1869 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… covered much of the area of the Hastings family's inclosed estate depicted in 1625, 18 together with Yelford field to … worth £40. 41 By then much of Yelford was an inclosed farm in single ownership, but a few other substantial … £250. 50 In 1625 the inclosed Hastings estate, later Manor farm, comprised 218 a. of pasture, 109 a. of meadow, 4 a. of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… later Middle Ages, Yelford's west part became an inclosed estate in single ownership, leaving other holdings to the … the only other farmhouse in the village (later College Farm) 65 both the house and attached estate were regarded as … wood probably down the shallow declivity west of Westfield Farm; 75 it met, near the beginning of Brighthampton Cut, the …