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A History of the County of Oxford
… booths, and sideshows, and fixed rents. About 1925 the UDC bought the market tolls outright, 75 and in the 1960s the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and by the 1480s the town had attracted a small group of foreign traders, the largest recorded in the county outside …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 28 Small-scale improvements, notably introduction of foreign wools in blending, were aimed at making Witney … his own business on High Street around 1850, having bought John George's small spinning concern on Corn Street … design destined for South Africa or South America. 49 Foreign markets continued to expand: by the 1820s and 1830s …
A History of the County of Oxford
… rectory land, long rented as a school playing field, was bought outright. By the 1930s the need for further buildings … buildings included the former rectory house to the south, bought by the county council in 1969 and converted into an …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a large area of open pasture south of the church, was bought by the rector in 1892 to prevent the approach to the … Bks. pp. 1li; below (origin and devpt). Nos. 92 and 94, bought with Joan Green's charity: ORO, Witney TC III/ii/1; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… along Corn Street and Meeting House Lane, one of them (bought in 1764) divided into three tenements, 67 and in this … the late 19th century, though in 1833 William Luckett bought three (probably small) cottages from Bartholomew … varied use continued after the urban district council bought it in 1911, occupying part as offices until 1936 and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Exchange, where a room was rented until the building was bought in 1911, and from around 1936 in a council chamber in … allotted to the district council for use as offices, was bought back in 1976, following a 1,400-signature petition to … Witney Lakes and Meadows Park south of the town, on land bought in 1988. 134 Its income came from reserves and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… from 1751 to successive dukes of Marlborough, who in 1862 bought it outright; at their purchase it still included land … in 1883, 1890, and 1956. 22 In 1872 and 1880 the 7th duke bought another 380 a. in Crawley, 23 but in 1886 his … 1983, and in 1993, following various abortive schemes, was bought by Oxfordshire County Council. The excavated parts of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The old house remained empty and semi-derelict until bought in 1969 by the county council, which repaired and … a house further south on the sites of Nos. 215, which he bought privately in 1471 but which was sold in 1485. 40 … it may have been altered. 217 In 1634 the churchwardens bought a silver-gilt cup whose cover has since been lost, 218 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for a time services were held in a house at Church Green, bought privately by the pastor as a joint manse and … a new manse for the second minister, on Tower Hill, was bought in 1939. 128 Membership of the combined circuits … further up Corn Street near Meeting House Lane, on land bought the previous year. The building caused crippling debts …