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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 … ran a successful blanket-cleaning service. 16 44. Bridge Street Mills ( W. Smith & Co.): ( a) The street frontage, … established with an imported workforce at the disused union workhouse just west of the town, made industrial …
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 … National school was established in 1813 on Bridge Street, prompting a sharp fall in the number of private … it was claimed to be the only civil parish in the poor-law union where school fees were still charged, despite large …
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. … sword found on the line of Emma's dyke south of Corn Street, a Bronze-Age spearhead found south of the town, and … St Mary's National school (1856) at Church Green, and the union workhouse (18356), just outside the town on Tower Hill. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the 14th century, 4 and the name Crundell (later Corn) Street referred probably to quarries immediately west of the … gable to the street, perhaps of the late 15th or early 16th century. No. 49 Market Square is a … to the north being converted into offices. 231 28. Witney union workhouse c. 1840. ( A. day rooms; B. probationary …
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 … Church Green and the market place, West ward west of High Street and along Corn Street, Middle Ward along the rest of … relief, subsequently serving as chairman of the Witney Union board of guardians. 77 Some meetings in the 18th and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… William Lenthall, and the lease seems to have expired or been revoked: Lenthall was lord certainly by 1652, and in … 25 and by 2003 the Blenheim estate held no land in Witney or its townships. 26 Many surviving copyholds were … visited frequently, their visits often preceded by repairs or new building; from the 14th century bishops' visits were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… survival of blocked, single-splayed windows of late 11th- or early 12th-century type high up in the nave of the … antiquaries that there was an earlier church on Corn Street are unsubstantiated, 4 and an isolated medieval … served for at least forty years, living in a house in Corn Street formerly owned by the Standlake family. 81 In 1535 the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… not all early adherents necessarily lived within the town or parish. For much of the 18th century Dissent, though … 11 In 1850 a modest Methodist meeting house on High Street was superseded by a large and prominent neo-Gothic … school outgrowing its accommodation, and a Christian Union of 26 members promoting cottage meetings at Hailey …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Peter) WITTENHAM, LITTLE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wallingford, hundred of Ock, county of Berks, 4 … antiquities being found occasionally. Wittenham, Long, or Earls (All Saints) WITTENHAM, LONG, or EARLS ( All … Cover and Ure, and consists chiefly of one long and wide street of neatly-built houses. The living is a vicarage, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of Kingsbury, … conjecture has deduced the latter from the Saxon Willi or Vili, signifying "many," and Combe, "a deep ravine" or … parish, in the union of Chailey, partly in the hundred of Street, rape of Lewes, and partly in that of BurleyArches, …