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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… (b)VII, N.E.) Yanwath and Eamont Bridge is a parish on the N. border of the county immediately S.W. of Penrith. … house forms three sides of a courtyard. The tower is said to have been built by John de Sutton in 1322 and to this date … with a moulded plinth and an embattled parapet, carried up at the angles to form turrets. The N., S. and W. sides …
A History of the County of Sussex
… within Yapton, one of which had also once partly belonged to an estate centred in Barnham, were added to Yapton, while … was apparently Yapton manor in 1086, 6 and a wood of the lord of Bilsham, much of it oak, was mentioned in the 16th … associated with three manors, 19 other buildings put up before 1800 are chiefly small, materials usually being …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… yeard; y'd; yd; yarde; eard] A term with several meanings, the most important in the Dictionary Archive being a unit of … - SPAR hung at its centre in front of a mast and serving to support and extend the square SAIL attached to it. Yards … such as the 'Machine for glazing ... linens and cottons up to two yards wide' [Patents (1788)] must also have …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 1:10000 a SP 74 NW, b SP 74 NE, c SP 74 SW, d SP 74 SE) The long, narrow parish, once part of Potterspury, stretches from the R. Tove on the E. boundary to a little beyond Watling Street (A5) which forms most of … These have now been destroyed. A dry ditch 8 m. wide and up to 1 m. deep to the N.E. of the moat appears to be a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 1:10000 a SP 85 SW, b SP 85 SE, c SP 85 NW, d SP 85 NE) The roughly rectangular parish, covering about 1460 hectares, … at 107 m. above OD. Cropmarks of unknown form are said to exist here (NM Records). d(2) Enclosure (SP 850551), 700 … of a large embankment, 190 m. long, 25 m. wide and up to 3.5 m. high, broken towards the N. end to allow the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… XXXIV, N.E.) Yarkhill is a parish 7 m. E.N.E. of Hereford. The church is the principal monument. Capler Camp in the … are covered with tiles and stone slates. There appears to have been a church here of c. 1200 as evidenced by some … 13th-century windows of a single trefoiled light; higher up in the W. wall is a window of the same date and of two …
A History of the County of Somerset
… roughly triangular in shape, measuring 2.5 km. from north to south at its widest and 3 km. from east to west. The only … his only surviving son Roger (d. 1961 s.p.), who divided up the estate for sale in the 1940s. Lordship was not … 100 a., extending as far as the parish boundary where the lord claimed a deer leap in the 18th century. 78 It was known …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a rent charge of £7 a year on Windmill field for repairs to the family chapel, with the residue given to the poor on St. … poor. In 1835 Vaughan Thomas and the churchwardens drew up a schedule for the better management of the distributions. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Church Church The earliest reference to a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 … but by 1579 the advowson had been bought by John Durant, lord of the manor, 51 and it descended with the manor … corner of the chapel; 2 it was moved, and allegedly broken up, to make room for a memorial to Charlotte (d. 1850), wife …
A History of the County of Oxford
… set of fields. The medieval yardland in Yarnton seems to have comprised c. 25 a. exclusive of meadow and pasture, … paid rent of 4 s. each and provided services at the lord's will; 7 half-yardlanders paid 2 s. 6 d. each with … management of the manorial estate, which was divided up among tenants, of whom there were as many as 20 in the …