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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, … there were few structural changes before the Second World War, when one or two manufacturing firms moved to Witney … 6 capacity remained broadly similar after the Second World War when the main firms operated 475 looms with 322 weavers, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, one of a prominent Witney burgess family, … 1953, following rapid urban growth since the Second World War, the town's schools were further expanded and … under the 1944 Education Act. After the Second World War the school was again judged unsatisfactory, its buildings …
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.) … suburban expansion occurred only after the Second World War with the arrival of major new industries. 276 Building … Century Housing and Slum Clearance After the First World War the urban district council undertook intensive …
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 … detail. In Witney, as elsewhere, the First World War checked all private house-building. Housing shortages … Though no council housing had been built before the war under the limited powers then available, thereafter the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured wide-ranging liberties within their … 2 the same year, however, he received royal confirmations of Forest and other rights, and most franchises seem to have … 130 people in 1911, but closed during the First World War and was sold in 1922. 228 Public Health and Public …
A History of the County of Oxford
… AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a church within the 10th- and 11th-century estate seems … likely, the earliest unequivocal evidence is the survival of blocked, single-splayed windows of late 11th- or early … Family banners and armour in the chapel survived Civil War mutilation but were removed by workmen around 1840, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY The strength of Protestant Dissent in Witney, a dominant feature of the … among some of the population, while in the Civil War, despite the presence of Puritan lecturers and of some … 23643. Above, churches. Above, intro. (social life: Civil War). Calamy Revised, ed. A. G. Matthews, 342; R. Mayo, Life …
A History of the County of Oxford
… borough Roman catholicism ROMAN CATHOLICISM Despite hints of religious conservatism in the mid 16th century, there is … 1915 at No. 1 Church Green, and during the First World War masses were celebrated in the former workhouse chapel for Portuguese prisoners of war helping to construct Witney aerodrome. 12 A Roman …
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 … style recently added by Sir W. Chaytor. In the great civil war it was held by Sir William d'Arcy for the king, and was …
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 … of persons slain near the spot in a skirmish during the war of the seventeenth century. In the parish are many …