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A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: the industrial revolution in Witney c.1800-1900 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN WITNEY, c. 18001900 During the 19th century Witney was … Australia, as well as from Scotland and much of southern England, 50 and in 1895 both Early's and Smith's enjoyed a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and seems generally to have thrived despite a slight fall in population, with relatively limited unemployment even … commerce, founded by local shopkeepers and store managers in 1920, acquired 22 members, though a traders' exhibition … Wages were negotiated between unions at the West of England District Joint Industrial Council, where conditions …
A History of the County of Oxford
… To 1660 A school run presumably by local clergy existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, … about 1375, though his surname was probably hereditary. 2 In the early 16th century a chantry priest evidently taught … school was built on Hailey road. The Batt Church of England Central Secondary school was opened in 1930 in a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town and borough, laid out by a bishop of Winchester in probably the late 12th or early 13th century within a … west Oxfordshire, its population rising from under 4,000 in the 1930s to over 20,000 by the end of the 20th century. 2 … other sites in the West Country and elsewhere in southern England, 122 though no such distinction emerges from the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Buildings ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was described as a stone-built town, 2 … manorial and (possibly) town quarries were recorded in 1479. 5 The master mason Thomas of Witney, who worked at … praised the Witney Methodists as a 'pattern to all England'. 290 Presumably because of the strength of Dissent …
A History of the County of Oxford
… being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors except in connection with Crown pleas. 1 In 1284 the bishop procured excommunication against unnamed … 14, f. 21v.; the statement in D. Eastwood, Governing Rural England (1994), 37, that before the 1830s the vestry was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… windows of late 11th- or early 12th-century type high up in the nave of the existing building. Possibly that work was … a minster at Witney, and before the estate was assembled in possibly the mid 10th century the area may have been … dwellers of Lowell's Yard, and in 1877 when Church of England and Wesleyan Bands of Hope set up in opposition. 125 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… NONCONFORMITY The strength of Protestant Dissent in Witney, a dominant feature of the town from the late 17th … of many small cloth towns, 1 and may have had its origins in an earlier tradition of local Lollardy: in the 1520s … which made the Witney meeting 'a pattern to all England'. 11 In 1850 a modest Methodist meeting house on High …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WIVELISCOMBE ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of … ravine" or "dell." The town occupies a gentle eminence, in an extensive valley inclosed by lofty hills, which … Devon breed, considered to be the largest in the west of England, is held on the last Tuesday in February; and fairs …
A History of the County of Essex
… of Wivenhoe manor, the lords presenting regularly, except in 1564, 1589, 1607, and 1637 when turns had been granted or sold, 3 and in 1890 when Robert Cantrell presented as guardian of N. C. … p. 74. E.R.O., sale cat. B1578; inf. from Church of England Record Centre. E.R.O., D/DU 27; ibid. Q/RTh 1, f. 19. …