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A History of the County of Oxford
… Burford parish), owned wool houses and weaving shops on Corn Street (on the later Swan Laundry site), and employed … in 1766 was averted only after farmers lowered corn prices, 141 and in 1784 a 'fracas' between the Blanket … worth 33, agricultural produce, and property in Corn Street and West End. 198 Prominent 18th-century mercers …
A History of the County of Oxford
… accused of forestalling it by buying barley at Asthall. 27 Corn, butter, meat, fruit, cattle, horses, pigs, and sheep … closed in 1963. 31 The original weekly market, chiefly for corn after 1839 and still in the 1930s, had fifteen … Church Green: there is no evidence of an early market on Corn Street, whose name derives from quarries at its western …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were employed presumably at the bishop's quarries near Corn Street and elsewhere, which in the 13th and 14th … accounts for 12234 recorded rents from fulling and corn mills at Waleys (now Farm) Mill just south of the … Roger Hering, who jointly held Waleys and Woodford corn and fulling mills in the 1270s. 57 Surnames suggest the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was a small horse- or donkey-powered spinning factory on Corn Street. 14 Power-looms seem not to have been introduced … shops and small blanket factory on the north side of Corn Street, gradually extended from the late 18th century, … having bought John George's small spinning concern on Corn Street with capital from a short-lived brewery venture. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… on outside labour, 32 included the Witney Steam Laundry on Corn Street, opened about 1907, the nearby Swan Laundry, … Place in 1934, moving in 1947 to a larger factory at Corn Street. 33 A mail-order company, selling bedding and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… rector Francis Cunningham in a former 'ranter's chapel' on Corn Street, closed in 1879. 60 A second National school, in … was Harriet Wells. Another of the family ran a school on Corn Street in the 1830s. 73 John Heel, master of a boarding …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bronze-Age sword found on the line of Emma's dyke south of Corn Street, a Bronze-Age spearhead found south of the town, … of the lane called the Crofts across the narrow neck of Corn Street. The early borough may thus have comprised little … toll-bar. 18 Extension of the borough westwards along Corn Street to the line of Emma's dyke may also have been …
A History of the County of Oxford
… from the 14th century, 4 and the name Crundell (later Corn) Street referred probably to quarries immediately west … buildings known from old views include the former corn returns office on the site of the surviving Corn Exchange, and a predecessor of the demolished Crown …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the market place, West ward west of High Street and along Corn Street, Middle Ward along the rest of High Street, and … Arms. A vestry- or committee-room in the workhouse on Corn Street was mentioned in 1798, when parish accounts were … council met usually every 24 weeks, at first in the Corn Exchange, where a room was rented until the building was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… antiquaries that there was an earlier church on Corn Street are unsubstantiated, 4 and an isolated medieval … served for at least forty years, living in a house in Corn Street formerly owned by the Standlake family. 81 In …