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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
… 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 … 1965, 27 and in the 1920s and 1930s a company Provident Fund made individually-determined payments to employees in …
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 … useful industry', the products of which were sold to help fund the school. 53 By 1815 there were 85 boys and 70 girls …
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 parish followed urban expansion during the … improvements were made in the town's sanitation, amenities, and general appearance, albeit in the face of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a landing large enough to place furniture. Domestic Amenities The capital investment that made clothiers appear … quality. In 1874 the inspector for Witney Urban Sanitary District reported a block of 'wretched' cottages on … less existed about 1880, 401 and an association providing nursing care for the poor was established by the rector and a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… effectively policed by the town's local board and urban district council. 44 By 1871 its proceedings were largely … renovating the Corn Exchange and Langdale Hall as social amenities, pressing for development of new shopping and … with 23 beds or bedsteads. Witney's overseers paid for nursing smallpox cases there and for provision of beer and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… taking a lead in welfare and social matters, reorganizing district visiting and thrift clubs, and arranging parish … chimes were installed in 1950 at the expense of the urban district council, which had taken over responsibility in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… when Mather also received 6 a year from the Presbyterian fund, the congregation was claimed to be 400500, presumably …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… park, and the Blackwater here empties itself into it. A district church, dedicated to St. Mark, was built in 1840; it … for extra duty in Lent, and the remainder to the poor. A fund of 21 per annum, the produce of bequests from Richard … and the remainder woodland and plantations. The northern district is chiefly uninclosed moor, but the soil in other …