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A History of the County of Oxford
… creating further employment. 40 A biennial Witney trade fair on Church Green, hosted by the Witney chamber of trade … reinstated in 1972 after a ten-year lapse: in 1990 the fair was the largest recorded, attracting exhibits from as … July 1974; Oxf. Mail, 4 June 1990, suppl. re Witney Trade Fair. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… been exported from Bristol, since attendance at Bristol fair was one of the few reasons allowed for officers' absence …
A History of the County of Oxford
… both periods of apparent growth and prosperity, market and fair income declined or remained low, suggesting that much of … In 1202 the bishop of Winchester was granted an annual fair at Witney, held on Ascension day and the three days … repaired in 121011, 3 and from 1218 combined market- and fair-tolls were accounted for annually, together with seldage …
A History of the County of Oxford
… members of the Raulin family later rented the market and fair tolls. 28 Their accumulations of property clearly set … and fairs and in local cloth manufacture. Market and fair tolls, already variable during the earlier 13th century, … detail. The confirmation in 1317 of Witney's Ascension day fair, said then to be in abeyance, perhaps represented an …
A History of the County of Oxford
… below. Oxf. Mail, 4 June 1990, supplement re Witney Trade Fair. ORO, Witney UDC III/ii/10a, ff. 269; below. VCH Oxon. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… laid out around a new market place in 1200, was granted a fair in 1202 at the same time as Witney, 104 while rising …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to fighting among rival groups. 352 A separate Forest fair on the Wednesday following Witney feast, when large … speculators were providing 'refreshments', and by 1830 the fair had attained some notoriety. 353 Much of the town's … cockades', was swelled by those attending the market and fair, the festivities ending with money and bread being …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 16 and presumably, as later, administered the market and fair, 17 liberties still staunchly defended in the early 17th … Highway Board for West End, and around 24 from market and fair tolls. Expenditure, some 1,460, included salaries …