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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, … some 417 of stock for charitable purposes, which a Charity Commission investigation that year found was not being used … significant changes were made until 1935 when two Charity Commission Schemes were sealed, by which all of Witney's …
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 … always a prominent Witney blanket-weaver and who acted as metropolitan agent for his fellows. 107 The Company had its …
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 … Barclays, and the Birmingham Banking Company becoming the Metropolitan and (later) Midland Bank. 102 Also catering for …
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, … structural change was essential, and in 1877 a Charity Commission Scheme reorganized the school as a 'Second Grade' … school combining with it. Under Schemes of the Charity Commission in 1901 and of the Board of Education in 1902 the …
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 … it did for our fathers it will do for us'. 260 Underground sewers were finally installed in 1874 and extended in 1902, …
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 … highway rate in 1848 paid for repairs to choked drains and sewers by the able-bodied poor, and though the town was then … included in the town charities under successive Charity Commission decrees, and although from 1744 they were leased …
A History of the County of Essex
… estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of bordarii increased from 6 to 20 which might suggest … insignificant. In 1327 its assessment for subsidy was one of the lowest of the parishes in Lexden hundred; the lord of the manor was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of the county of Gloucester, 5 miles … of the common-council shortly to apply for a separate commission of the peace. The powers of the county debt-court …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… services PUBLIC SERVICES. A gas works was built west of New Street in 1849 by William Edwards (d. 1863). 32 It was … Hadley & Trench Gas Works stood on the south-western edge of Trench Pool, and in 1912 the Hadley, Trench, and … or ineffectively: the more recently developed streets had sewers, but they generally discharged into open ditches that …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Woodditton WOODDITTON Woodditton lies immediately south of Newmarket, 8 a town established c. 1200 astride the road … 43 In 1953 the estate granted a long lease to the Forestry Commission, which cut down the mature oak, cleared the … 55; inf. from Mr. R. G. Hands, District Manager, Forestry Commission, Tangham, Woodbridge, Suff.; inf. from Mr. H. S. …