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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is one of the old crosses with which this part of the country abounds. Several sepulchral urns have been dug up in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… four Witney firms together accounted for a quarter of the country's woollen blanket production. 7 A post-war boom, … labour, and one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country. Nevertheless the balance between local jobs, rising …
A History of the County of Oxford
… have been the undyed broadcloth which then dominated the country's export trade, although narrow cloths and linen were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 'lower than in any other town of comparable size in the country'. 23 From 1939 the industry was again on a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… been identified on monastic and other sites in the West Country and elsewhere in southern England, 122 though no such … was destroying the 'old heart of . . . a small, charming country market town', and which risked producing 'some … retained the atmosphere of a prosperous and vigorous country town, with some fine house and shop fronts and a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… at town festivities and at Temperance events around the country; it acquired a national reputation, achieving second … charities. Bodl. MS Don a 7, no. 18. W. Wilkinson, Eng. Country Houses (2nd edn 1875), pl. 60. Datestone; cf. Lewis's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… grounds, the cemetery, and the 75-a. Lakes and Meadows Country Park south and east of the town, bought for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Par. Diary', 6, 1011, 36. DNB; B. Colloms, Victorian Country Parsons (1977), 27. 'Witney Par. Diary', 14, 389. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… rebellion, which had spread to Oxfordshire from the West Country, but no Witney townsmen seem to have been implicated, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and commanding a fine view of the sea and the intermediate country. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the …