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A History of the County of Oxford
… to the north being converted into offices. 231 28. Witney union workhouse c. 1840. ( A. day rooms; B. probationary … enlargement to the south. On completion of the new union workhouse the old building became 'entirely useless' and reverted to the town feoffees. 232 The union workhouse, with accommodation for 450 inmates, was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… relief, subsequently serving as chairman of the Witney Union board of guardians. 77 Some meetings in the 18th and … Law Amendment Act, Witney became the centre of a poor-law union of 42 parishes, responsibility for its own poor passing … No. 45 Corn Street, in the mid 20th century. 227 The new union workhouse on Tower Hill, built in 18356 with …
A History of the County of Oxford
… school outgrowing its accommodation, and a Christian Union of 26 members promoting cottage meetings at Hailey … meeting narrowly voted against the proposed Methodist union, but during the later 1920s a series of prominent … Methodists at the High Street chapel, and by 1928 the union was supported by a large majority. 127 The two circuits …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Peter) WITTENHAM, LITTLE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wallingford, hundred of Ock, county of Berks, 4 … WITTENHAM, LONG, or EARLS ( All Saints), a parish, in the union of Wallingford, hundred of Ock, county of Berks, 4 … found. Wittering, East WITTERING, EAST, a parish, in the union of West Hampnett, hundred of Manhood, rape of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of Kingsbury, … WIVELSFIELD ( St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Chailey, partly in the hundred of Street, rape of … Wivenhoe (St. Mary) WIVENHOE ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Lexden and Winstree, Colchester division of the …
A History of the County of Essex
… and were very overcrowded. 3 By 1839 the schools were in union with the National Society. In 1848 a new schoolhouse, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of the … (St. Mary) WOLLASTON ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Wellingborough, hundred of Higham-Ferrers, N. … WOLLASTON, a chapelry, in the parish of Alberbury, union of Atcham, hundred of Ford, S. division of Salop, 9 …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Willoughby, of another branch of this Family. By this Union Sir Percival became possessed of Wollaton, and the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 3 Wolvercote was included in the Woodstock poor law union in 1834, and the Woodstock rural district from 1894 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WOMBLETON, a township, in the parish of Kirkdale, union of Helmsley, wapentake of Ryedale, N. riding of York, 4 … (St. Benedict) WOMBOURN ( St. Benedict), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. … WOMBRIDGE ( St. Mary and St. Leonard), a parish, in the union of Wellington, Wellington division of the hundred of …