Search
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: ecomonic development since … to improve infrastructure and attract new industries if Witney was not to become largely a dormitory town, a … national recession of the 1970s and 1980s, which affected Witney seriously, slowing but not reversing its industrial …
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 Witney's economy was dominated by its expanding cloth … for around 10 per cent. 2 In the early 16th century Witney was a small but expanding town of probably under 1,000 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: markets and fairs MARKETS AND FAIRS Witney had a weekly market and two annual fairs from the … place outside the formal market structure. In the 1540s Witney was nevertheless described as a 'great market town', 1 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: medieval trade and industry … in 121920, and there seems no doubt that by the 1270s Witney was a town in the fullest sense, notwithstanding its … of Cogges about 121213, a venture presumably stimulated by Witney's early success; since Newland failed, however, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: the industrial revolution in Witney c.1800-1900 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN WITNEY, c. 18001900 During the 19th century Witney was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: trade and industry 1900-1945 … AND INDUSTRY 19001945 During the earlier 20th century Witney's economy remained chiefly dependent on the blanket … unemployment even during the depression of the 1930s. 1 A Witney chamber of trade and commerce, founded by local …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Education EDUCATION Provision To 1660 A school … as membership of the meeting again declined. 46 Wesleyan Methodist Schools By the early 19th century several … Diary', p. 11, probably referring to a former Abrahamite Primitive Methodist chapel: above, nonconf. Witney Par. Mag. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction WITNEY BOROUGH Introduction The town of Witney, 1 by the … the Staple Hall Inn; it was subsequently moved to near the Methodist chapel on High Street, across the road to Nos. 15 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction: Architecture and Buildings … of Holy Trinity built at Woodgreen in 1849. 236 Wesleyan Methodist Chapels and Schools Several Nonconformist chapels … from the Marlborough Lane chapel at its sale in 1961. 251 Primitive Methodist Chapel A Primitive Methodist chapel on …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT Seignorial … 'malefactors' said to have infringed his liberties at Witney, suggesting that not all such rights went … have continued throughout the later Middle Ages. 3 Within Witney manor the bishop's liberties and manorial rights were …