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A History of the County of Oxford
… history: agriculture AGRICULTURE After the creation of the town Witney manor, encompassing the three rural … with profits from rents and farming forming the bulk of the lord's income: in 1552 the manor was valued at just … Rep. Assistant Hand-Loom Weavers Commissioners (Parl Papers 1840 (639), xxiv), p. 552. ORO, MSS Wills Oxon., …
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 what may both have been early crossings of the river Windrush. 1 Outlying mills at Hailey (near …
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
… Witney was transformed by mechanization, the introduction of the factory system, and the emergence of large commercial … shop fronts . . . to see that business was in a prosperous state'. 7 37. Woodgreen blanket factory ( later Henry … Cttee on Oxford and Gt. Western Union Railway Bill (Parl. Papers (HL) 18378 (227), xx), p. 27; Plummer, Witney Blanket …
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 … Rep. Assistant Hand-Loom Weavers Commissioners (Parl. Papers 1840 (639), xxiv), p. 552; Educ. Enq. Abstract (Parl. …
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.) … and even after early 19th-century improvements the poor state of its public streets remained a subject of local … Cttee on Oxf. and Gt. Western Union Railway Bill (Parl. Papers (HL) 18378 (227), xx), p. 27; Oxf. Jnl. 16 Nov. 1861; …
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 … of clothes and valuables including documents: in 1633 papers were taken from a trunk in John Box's chamber in the … the 1930s. 195 By 1974 the building was in a 'deplorable state' and, following improvements to Langdale Hall (below), …
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 … govt.). Rep. Assistant Hand-loom Weavers Commrs. (Parl. Papers 1840 (639), xxiv), pp. 5512; above, intro. (social …