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A History of the County of Oxford
… the estates from which tithe and other wool was sold to a Witney merchant: Eynsham Cart. i. 251. Ibid. ii, pp. lxxvi, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Arthur Young's Tour of the Southern Counties (1768), gave Witney as the place of manufacture. Valuations varied …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1834. 56 In 1932 it was transferred from Woodstock to Witney rural district, and in 1974 to Cherwell district. …
Alumni Oxonienses
… the chapel royal, rector of Remenham, Berks, 1660, and of Witney, Oxon, 1665, bishop of Oxford 1665, and of Worcester …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… distributing bread or money, obtaining spinning work from Witney (Oxon.), and using charity money to buy clothes for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by debts owed to or by Black Bourton inhabitants in Witney, Bampton, and Burford, as well as in neighbouring … in hand: 159 stone from one of them was used for the new Witney town hall in 1785, and in 1870 a later duke allowed … 295/3/82; J. L. Bolton and M. M. Maslen (eds.), Cal. Witney Ct Bks (ORS 54, 1985), pp. lxxiii, 152. Ch. Ch. Arch., …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (22.5 km) west of Oxford and 5 miles (8 km) south-west of Witney, on gently rising ground some three miles north of the … to an early crossing of the river Windrush at Witney, and continuing through Cogges to Eynsham. 19 The … in the 18th century the road formed part of the route from Witney to Lechlade (Glos.). 21 An undated cropmark north of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… constabulary. 25 From 1834 Black Bourton belonged to Witney poor law union, and in 1894 became part of Witney rural district. 26 A parish council, established the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… related probably to Primitive Methodists attached to the Witney circuit, and in 1826, when there were 22 members at … to the newly formed Faringdon circuit, merged with the Witney circuit about 1964. 96 Membership rose from 24 in 1839 …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… long, but by 1578 blankets were apparently being made in Witney, Oxon, which was to become one of the main centres of production. Fine Witney blankets were made in widths of ten to twelve quarters … COTs and the like. Seventeenth-century blanket weavers in Witney were often large master clothiers with up to four …