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A History of the County of Oxford
… 32 s. 6 d. a year. Probably they stood near the sites of Waleys or Farm Mill near the 12th-century manorial precinct, and of Woodford or Witney Mill at the town's northern end, at … was occupied by a wool carder, and in 1861 the mill was a woollen-mop factory, with a resident foreman. 69 In the early …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a dormitory town, a recurrent theme in the second half of the 20th century. 1 The arrival in 1950 of the engineering firm Smiths' of England, attracting both … firms together accounted for a quarter of the country's woollen blanket production. 7 A post-war boom, fuelled by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… century its economic fortunes were closely linked to those of the woollen and cloth industries nationally, although it retained … Witney Ct. Bks. pp. xviiixix; cf. G. D. Ramsay, Wilts. Woollen Ind. in 16 th and 17 th Cents. (2nd edn 1965), 71 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… borough status. 1 By the early 14th century some parts of its economy were apparently contracting, notably the local … 63 while a few years earlier a packhorse carrying dyed woollen cloth 'of diverse colours' was stolen on the road … P. Beckinsale, 'Factors in the Development of the Cotswold Woollen Ind.', Geographical Jnl. 90 (1937), 361; cf. R. Plot, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney was transformed by mechanization, the introduction of the factory system, and the emergence of large commercial family firms. 1 The blanket industry … Newfoundland, Bermuda, and Australia, as well as from Scotland and much of southern England, 50 and in 1895 both …
A History of the County of Oxford
… relatively limited unemployment even during the depression of the 1930s. 1 A Witney chamber of trade and commerce, … R. P. Beckinsale, 'Factors in Development of Cotswold Woollen Industry', Geographical Jnl. 90 (1937), 360; ORO, … Witney UDC III/ii/10a, f. 29; below. Beckinsale, 'Cotswold Woollen Ind.' 360. ORO, B1/PL/EB/2, summary of weavers …
A History of the County of Oxford
… borough Introduction WITNEY BOROUGH Introduction The town of Witney, 1 by the river Windrush some 10 miles (16 km.) … ownership. A house and shop on High Street, sold by a woollen draper in 1576, occupied an irregular plot only 30 … P. Beckinsale, 'Factors in the Development of the Cotswold Woollen Industry', Geographical Jnl. 90 (1937), 361. Jenkins, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was … such as those of Emmot Fermor (1501), 79 William Elmer, woollen draper (1591), Nicholas Gunn (1602, with goods … but on tables and cupboards. 102 Those engaged in the woollen industry needed to store and process raw materials …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WITTENHAM, LITTLE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wallingford, hundred of Ock, county of Berks, 4 miles (N. W. by N.) from … works were soon abandoned. It was subsequently let for a woollen manufactory, which prospered for a few years, but …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of Kingsbury, W. division of Somerset, 28 … from a spring on Mawndown, a hill about a mile distant. A woollen manufacture is carried on, but not on so large a …