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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 … 1553 and 1589, while the draper Thomas Clempson was chamberlain in 1563 and bailiff in 1566. 52 … 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
… 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 … 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 PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY The strength of Protestant Dissent in Witney, a dominant feature of the town from the late 17th century, reflected the … 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
… ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of Kingsbury, W. division of Somerset, 28 … Devon breed, considered to be the largest in the west of England, is held on the last Tuesday in February; and fairs …