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A History of the County of Oxford
… DEVELOPMENT SINCE 1945 By the late 1940s the urban district council acknowledged the need to improve … during the 1980s and 1990s. In the 1980s West Oxfordshire District Council, in conjunction with private developers, … 'Witney: Options for New Industrial Estates' (West Oxon. District Council, 1980), copy in COS. Below (decline of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… inhabitants, with at least as many again living in its rural townships. 3 Its taxable wealth in 1524 placed it … as bailiff. 188 A few other small craftsmen practised semi-rural trades, notably those of blacksmith, cooper, and … 4/6045. Gent. Mag. 62 (1792), pt. 2, p. 1144; W. Cobbett, Rural Rides, ed. P. Cobbett (1885 edn), ii. 1778. ORO, MSS …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Church Green. 73 From 1870 the board and later the urban district council rented the tolls from the duke of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… usually in small scattered parcels, presumably sublet to rural tenants. 29 Perhaps more important to such townspeople … 45). 37 Mid-century plagues, catastrophic in Witney's rural townships, clearly affected the borough, with some …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 400 to 150 over five years. 34 The catastrophic impact on rural spinners was emphasized by William Cobbett in 1826, … 1891, although outside Witney it served a relatively small rural area. 62 A rival, in the former Blanket Hall on High … the first steam-driven sawmill and machine-shop in the district, and by 1880 used mechanical concrete-mixers. 67 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were negotiated between unions at the West of England District Joint Industrial Council, where conditions at Witney …
A History of the County of Oxford
… improvement and instituted attendance checks through District Visitors; the school acquired new premises on Church … who attended its schools in 1897 coming from the outlying district. Nevertheless it was claimed to be the only civil … school on Hailey Road, in an area taken into the urban district a few years earlier; at its opening it had 196 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a civil parish, and from 1895 to 1974 it formed an urban district. 3 Further enlargement of both district and civil … incorporated from 1898. Separate accounts are given of the rural townships of Crawley, Curbridge, and Hailey. Location … well over a thousand, far larger than that of Witney's rural townships combined 34 and, on 14th-century evidence, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… quality. In 1874 the inspector for Witney Urban Sanitary District reported a block of 'wretched' cottages on … attending Witney manor court, mostly copyholders from the rural townships, were provided by the duke of Marlborough's … or hostility and caused widespread distress among rural spinners, while many weavers in the 1830s still had …
A History of the County of Oxford
… tourn or view of frankpledge, which continued for the rural townships following the borough's foundation. 4 A … burgus, chiefly to distinguish it from the 'upland' or rural part of Witney manor. 8 In important respects townsmen … effectively policed by the town's local board and urban district council. 44 By 1871 its proceedings were largely …