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A History of the County of Oxford
… 1613 the borough owned an almshouse and garden on the site of Nos. 2838 Church Green north of the rectory house, comprising three separate tenements in … but not directly administering charities or keeping accounts. Two houses on the site of No. 45 Corn Street, also …
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 … Crawley, econ. hist.; Hailey, econ. hist. The following accounts are by A. Crossley. Hants RO, 11M59/B1/4, 78. Hyde, …
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 local employees and large numbers …
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 the range of occupations typical of a small, prosperous market and industrial town. Throughout …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and stall-rents, seem not always to have mirrored those of the town generally: during the 13th and 16th centuries, both periods of apparent growth and prosperity, market and fair income declined or remained low, suggesting that much of the town's trading took place outside the formal market …
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 … and certainly an assertion that it ceased to be 'a centre of trade' and that the borough 'hardly deserves its name' 2 … work for water-powered fulling mills: the bishop's accounts for 12234 recorded rents from fulling and corn mills …
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 … Commissioners, pp. 54650; for John Early's (d. 1862) accounts 183051, ORO, B1/F/L6/2. Young, Oxon. Agric. 3256. W. …
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, founded by local shopkeepers and store … exhibition proposed for 1934 was abandoned through lack of interest. 2 A few significant new businesses opened in the …
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, learnt to read there. 1 … with a writing master (to teach writing and 'casting accounts') paid for out of the additional 13 endowment, an …
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.) west of Oxford, originated as a planned medieval market town and … adjacent built-up areas incorporated from 1898. Separate accounts are given of the rural townships of Crawley, …