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A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Education EDUCATION Provision To 1660 A school run … Bluecoat school. 30 The Newland school, just outside the borough in Cogges parish, was similarly organized for 24 boys … and science schools). ORO, RO 772, papers re proposed borough extension. Following account based on Fleming, Witney …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction WITNEY BOROUGH Introduction The town of Witney, 1 by the river … Oxford, originated as a planned medieval market town and borough, laid out by a bishop of Winchester in probably the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction: Architecture and Buildings ARCHITECTURE … referred probably to quarries immediately west of the borough; manorial and (possibly) town quarries were recorded … towards its building or rebuilding was left in 1514, 219 borough courts met there regularly by the 1550s, and by the …
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 bishops of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Manor and Manor House ('Bishop's Palace') MANOR AND … included land in all three townships as well as in the borough, together with manorial rights and courts. 4 In 1551, … estates were restored in 1660, and in 1661 both manor and borough were let to Sir Henry Hyde (d. 1709), Viscount …
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, … covering 7,182 a. and including, besides the medieval borough, the townships of Crawley, Curbridge, and Hailey. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Protestant nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Roman catholicism ROMAN CATHOLICISM Despite hints of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… annually: it is said to have been formerly a parliamentary borough, and that it was relieved from the elective franchise …
A History of the County of Essex
… to the upkeep of the houses after 1959. Colchester borough council gave a loan to help with the modernization of …