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A History of the County of Leicestershire
… Wistow WISTOW Wistow lies seven miles south-east of Leicester in the valley of the River Sence. Since 1936 it has included most of the … and east. The land rises from about 300 ft. in the valley to over 400 ft. in the south of the parish. Field boundaries …
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 road to Chatteris; containing 502 inhabitants. The living is a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Witham 106. WITHAM. (G.b.) Witham. The Parish Church of St Nicholas. (O.S. 6 in. (a)xxxiv. S.E. (b)xxxv. S.W. … 14th century; further W. is a late 14th-century doorway to the vestry, with moulded jambs and two-centred arch with … p. 257), at S.W. corner of the churchyard, was built c. 1500 with a cross-wing at the E. and W. ends. The upper …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1613 the borough owned an almshouse and garden on the site of Nos. 2838 Church Green north of the rectory house, comprising three separate tenements in … was rebuilt as a row of six cottages, each was usually let to non-paupers at commercial rents and the income used for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1940s the urban district council acknowledged the need to improve infrastructure and attract new industries if … 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 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: economic life 1500 to 1800 ECONOMIC LIFE 1500 TO 1800 From the 16th century … century its economic fortunes were closely linked to those of the woollen and cloth industries nationally, although it …
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 remained dominant, its success in adapting to new conditions largely accounting for the town's continued …
A History of the County of Oxford
… remained chiefly dependent on the blanket industry and to a lesser extent on glove manufacture, and seems generally … relatively limited unemployment even during the depression of the 1930s. 1 A Witney chamber of trade and commerce, founded by local shopkeepers and store …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Education EDUCATION Provision To 1660 A school run presumably by local clergy existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, one of a prominent Witney burgess family, … decline, with blanket-weavers ceasing to apply and places going to others. A successor tried to reinstate compulsory …
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 … its population rising from under 4,000 in the 1930s to over 20,000 by the end of the 20th century. 2 The ancient …