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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Martin) WITCHAM ( St. Martin), a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 5 miles (W.) from Ely, on the … glass. There are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, and Roman Catholics; also a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 2,100 acres, occupies a shallow dry valley on the E. bank of the R. Allen; it is entirely on Chalk, between 100 ft. and … sea-level. Land at East Hemsworth (18) was formerly part of Shapwick. Domesday mentions Wichemetune and two … 102, 104. Proceedings of the Bournemouth Natural Science Society, I (19089), 634.) (23) Roman Building (99060641), …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Uvell) WITHIEL ( St. Uvell), a parish, in the union of Bodmin, E. division of the hundred of Pyder and of the county of Cornwall, 5 … In the town are places of worship for Independents, the Society of Friends, and Wesleyans. The free grammar school, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1613 the borough owned an almshouse and garden on the site of Nos. 2838 Church Green north of the rectory house, comprising three separate tenements in which 'the poor of the borough are placed'; when and how it was acquired is …
A History of the County of Oxford
… relatively limited unemployment even during the depression of the 1930s. 1 A Witney chamber of trade and commerce, founded by local shopkeepers and store … cases of accident or illness. 28 The Witney Mills Housing Society, established by James Harold and Edward Cole Early in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, one of a prominent Witney burgess family, learnt to read there. 1 … the Wesleyan school site. In the 1910s it offered science, arts, and vocational subjects; its students included male and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… borough Introduction WITNEY BOROUGH Introduction The town of Witney, 1 by the river Windrush some 10 miles (16 km.) … undertaken from the mid 1920s by the Witney Mills Housing Society, a non-profit-making association established by the … the houses were subsequently let to others. In 19268 the Society built 20 houses on Burford Road near Witney Mills, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was … Street, a row in three groups sharing distinctive, simple, arts-and-crafts detail. Those cottages, whose architect is … also designed houses in 1928 for the Witney Mills Housing Society, each containing three bedrooms and a small …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured wide-ranging liberties within their … 2 the same year, however, he received royal confirmations of Forest and other rights, and most franchises seem to have … in Oxford was acquired from the British Red Cross Society in 1923 and was replaced in 1934, partly with income …
A History of the County of Oxford
… AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a church within the 10th- and 11th-century estate seems … for church members. A Church of England Working Men's Society and a Workman's Club were set up in 1888, and Norris … in 1841, following over-optimistic advice from the Oxford Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture, cost …