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A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… Mr John Willmer Mr William Wintle Mrs Dorothy Wise Witney and District Historical and Archaeological Society …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… DUCKLINGTON ( St. Bartholomew), a parish, in the union of Witney, hundred of Bampton, county of Oxford, 1 mile (S.) from Witney; containing, with the hamlet of Hardwicke, 541 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for Ducklington intended by the will of James Leverett of Witney dated 1783 seems never to have been implemented. 41 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… II in 1687; 68 he left much of the duty to his curate, a Witney schoolmaster. 69 On Sundays in 1738 there was a … similar to work at Cogges and in the north transept at Witney; the aisle buttresses, with pack-saddle heads and ogee-headed niches, also have close parallels at Witney. Features such as the continuous exterior string …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Ducklington mill became an important employer. 90 Witney, particularly its textile industry, had long … and almost all the labourers were agricultural. 93 Witney's importance to Ducklington increased in the 20th … men who were not farm labourers, and many girls, worked in Witney's mills; married women worked as out-workers for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the 'principal parishioners' sending their children to Witney schools. 10 The accessibility of Witney National school for older children was blamed for the … junior school in 1930. Senior children continued to attend Witney schools. Average attendance at Ducklington in 1939 was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the west bank of the river Windrush immediately south of Witney and 5 miles north-east of Bampton. 71 It was a … rural parish until the later 20th century when, as Witney spread southwards, Ducklington village acquired … at the same time Ducklington lost 39 a. on the north to Witney and 202 a. on the south to the newly created parish of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of a plan of 1817 to farm out the poor of Ducklington, Witney, and Curbridge to a single contractor is not known. 75 … 1830s. 80 After 1834 Ducklington and Hardwick belonged to Witney union. Ducklington's vestry continued to appoint … a parish. council. Ducklington and Hardwick became part of Witney rural district, and in 1974 of West Oxfordshire …
A History of the County of Oxford
… on the site of the modern Feilden Close. 5 A house on the Witney road, demolished c. 1840 and reputedly the 'old manor … Claywell was sublet by Sir Edward North to Leonard Yate of Witney, clothier, 20 and Yates of Witney were still suitors of Shifford court for land in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a few parishioners probably attended 'conventicles' at Witney. 96 In 1817 several families were attending meetings … reported regularly in Ducklington thereafter. 97 In 1827 Witney's Wesleyan minister registered a meeting house in Ducklington; 98 the meeting was briefly included in Witney's local preaching plan but was given up in 1832. 99 In …