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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Martin) WITCHAM ( St. Martin), a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 5 miles (W.) from Ely, on the … of George III., was received here on her first arrival in England. The town is pleasantly situated near the confluence …
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 of …
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 … by then the town was already 'the most eminent in England' for blanket-making, producing not only 'famously …
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 … Witney Ct. Bks. p. lx. E. M. Carus Wilson and O. Coleman, England's Export Trade 12751547 (1963), 1389. Witney Ct. Bks. …
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 … 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
… relatively limited unemployment even during the depression of the 1930s. 1 A Witney chamber of trade and commerce, founded by local shopkeepers and store … Wages were negotiated between unions at the West of England District Joint Industrial Council, where conditions …
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 … 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
… 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 … 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
… town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality … 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
… 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 … 14, f. 21v.; the statement in D. Eastwood, Governing Rural England (1994), 37, that before the 1830s the vestry was …