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A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: the industrial revolution in Witney … adapting to new conditions largely accounting for the town's continued prosperity: in 1851 blanket-workers still … India as well as England. 53 41. Occupations in Witney borough, 1851. Other Trades and Industries, 18001900 Though …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: trade and industry 1900-1945 TRADE … INDUSTRY 19001945 During the earlier 20th century Witney's economy remained chiefly dependent on the blanket industry … manufacturers, accounting for 90 per cent of the town's production in 1949; 10 in the mid 1920s Smith's merged with …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Education EDUCATION Provision To 1660 A school run … and Nonconformist schools better suited to the town's needs. John Holloway's Bluecoat school at West End, endowed … Bluecoat school. 30 The Newland school, just outside the borough in Cogges parish, was similarly organized for 24 boys …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction WITNEY BOROUGH Introduction The town of Witney, 1 by the river … and Curbridge were added in 1932, bringing the town's area to 1,306 a., and intakes from Curbridge (47 a.) and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction: Architecture and Buildings ARCHITECTURE … and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … referred probably to quarries immediately west of the borough; manorial and (possibly) town quarries were recorded …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT Seignorial Jurisdiction and Borough Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century … and the right to deliver and return royal writs, the king's officers being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Manor and Manor House ('Bishop's Palace') MANOR AND MANOR HOUSE ('BISHOP'S PALACE') Witney … included land in all three townships as well as in the borough, together with manorial rights and courts. 4 In 1551, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Parish church and church life PARISH CHURCH AND … to the east, and almost certainly it long predated the borough's foundation. 1 The ecclesiastical parish, conterminous with …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Protestant nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY The … the growing centrality of Nonconformity to the town's social and civic as well as religious life (Figs. 546). An … Anglican churches together, overall attendance at the town's five Nonconformist meeting houses remained higher, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Roman catholicism ROMAN CATHOLICISM Despite hints of … probably with a group centred on the Greenwood family's manor house at Brize Norton: a priest from there tried to … including a shopkeeper, mantua-maker, publican, and tailor's wife. 6 Two or three Catholic families remained in 1802, …