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A History of the County of Oxford
… combined with national recession. Smith and Philips' Bridge Street and Crawley mills were closed in 1975, having … firms continued as significant employers until the 1970s or later. In the mid 1960s Crawford Collets employed 250 … 1960s, 30 no new industries arose to rival either Smiths' or the blanket companies. In the mid 1970s the blanket …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as well as more obvious rivals such as Burford, Bicester, or Abingdon (then Berks.). Even by the 1540s and 1550s, when … in the 16th century and later drawn from the town or immediate area. 11 From the 17th century Witney maintained … leaving 'all the looms' and a house and workshop near the bridge to two sons. 118 Like their 16th-century predecessors …
A History of the County of Oxford
… with some leading clothiers operating on a national or international scale. More general resurgence of the town's … century, and the laying-out of 16 new burgage plots along Bridge Street in 121920, presumably reflected both steady … evidence, apparently incomers from surrounding villages or rival towns: toponymics in or before the 1250s included …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a tenth of the working population in 1851 were farmers or agricultural labourers, with another 3 per cent engaged in predominantly agricultural crafts such as smithying or coopering, and 7 per cent described merely as 'labourers' … was needed, and by the 1870s, with new premises on Bridge Street, he was well established as a leading …
A History of the County of Oxford
… structural changes before the Second World War, when one or two manufacturing firms moved to Witney partly to escape … in the maintenance unit at Brize Norton airfield or in the Oxford car factories, and there was already a … and ran a successful blanket-cleaning service. 16 44. Bridge Street Mills ( W. Smith & Co.): ( a) The street …
A History of the County of Oxford
… school run presumably by local clergy existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, one of a … while a growing number of private and endowed elementary or Nonconformist schools, among them a Quaker school … National school was established in 1813 on Bridge Street, prompting a sharp fall in the number of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… out by a bishop of Winchester in probably the late 12th or early 13th century within a large pre-Conquest estate. … suggests that a late Anglo-Saxon estate-centre existed on or near the same site. 7 The precise location and topography … 121920 the borough was extended north of the river along Bridge Street: 14 thenceforth until the late 19th century the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… gable to the street, perhaps of the late 15th or early 16th century. No. 49 Market Square is a … the town hall, was probably the 'new built' house or tenement fronted with brick mentioned in 1739. 13 The … 16th-century house. 14 The plan of Riverside House on Bridge Street, evidently a large, late 16th-century house of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… freedom from toll, murage, and attendance at shire or hundred courts; the right to distrain and to receive fines … and manorial rights were exercised by his bailiff or steward through the courts baron and a twice-yearly tourn … and North ward, otherwise the Ward beyond or beneath the bridge, along Bridge Street and West End. 33 Courts from the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… antiquities being found occasionally. Wittenham, Long, or Earls (All Saints) WITTENHAM, LONG, or EARLS ( All Saints), a parish, in the union of … from the north bank of the Wear, which is crossed by a bridge. The scenery around is of great beauty, and on the …