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A History of the County of Oxford
… boys leaving school to be taught writing by a master at Witney; £20 a year was left for buying books and clothing for … went to the National school or the Wesleyan day school at Witney. 16 In 1857 the Blake schools trust, which also included a school at Witney, was reorganized. The Witney school was sold and the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… miles (15 km.) west of Oxford and ½ mile (0.4 km.) east of Witney. The ancient parish formerly covered 2,285 a. (920 … urban plantation at Newland, effectively a part of Witney, and, on the east, the hamlet of High Cogges. Wilcote, … to those described in charters for the adjoining manors of Witney in 969 and 1044 and Eynsham in 1005, and in a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the rising population and increasing mechanization of the Witney woollen industry. 3 During the 1820s the rate in Cogges, as in Witney, fell sharply to c. 10 s., presumably partly due to … employ the poor cost over £5, and in 1786 Mr. Luckett, a Witney blanket weaver, was paid £4 10 s. for 18 packs of work …
A History of the County of Oxford
… William, a woollen draper, may have been interested in the Witney blanket industry. His charitable ventures in London …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were recorded thereafter. In the 1660s in Cogges, as in Witney, protestant dissent was widespread, probably … 1667 at least nine nonconformists, four of them living in Witney, were invited to preach there; six or more were … 96 Meetings of up to 200 people, some probably from Witney or elsewhere, were held every Sunday in Cogges manor …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 21 March, 1661-2, aged 18. Collier, Samuel s. Tho., of Witney, Oxon, pleb. Trinity Coll., matric. 21 March, 1672-3, …
A History of the County of London
… 60. This appears to be the same as the seal of Robert Witney, master in the latter half of the fourteenth century, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… have been marketed in the later 16th century at Woodstock, Witney, and Chipping Norton, 94 and wool at Cirencester … from the 17th century, 37 presumably undertaken for Witney masters, although Ethelbert Irons, broadweaver, had at … wool being mixed to produce a much prized motley cloth. 39 Witney masters seem by the early 19th century to have ceased …
A History of the County of Oxford
… on both sides, east-west travel by the park. The road from Witney to Bicester, the principal route for wheeled traffic, … open in 1988. A weekly service by carrier to Oxford and Witney was in operation by the mid 19th century, 2 and in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wedgehook, in the 1770s, attended by a preacher from Witney, 84 and there were probably Methodists continuously in …