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A History of the County of Oxford
… and numeracy. 8 In the 1740s children in the parish workhouse were expected to be taught to read, though whether …
A History of the County of Oxford
… National school (1856) at Church Green, and the union workhouse (18356), just outside the town on Tower Hill. A row …
A History of the County of Oxford
… tenements apparently united around 1711. 46 A new parish workhouse was built on the site of three cottages in Corn … north being converted into offices. 231 28. Witney union workhouse c. 1840. ( A. day rooms; B. probationary wards; C. … town feoffees by the overseers, were rebuilt as a parish workhouse in 1744; a stone tablet recording its erection …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the King's Arms. A vestry- or committee-room in the workhouse on Corn Street was mentioned in 1798, when parish … part of a house on the east side of High Street as a workhouse or poorhouse; they were to provide a new well and … on the site of No. 45 Corn Street, which were rebuilt as a workhouse and which continued in use until around 1836. 193 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 30 were expelled after local enquiries, while in 1829 a workhouse inmate was expelled for idleness. 90 The Witney …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the First World War masses were celebrated in the former workhouse chapel for Portuguese prisoners of war helping to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… episcopal palace, including an archway leading into the workhouse, and the kitchen, which is nearly entire. In …
A History of the County of Essex
… but it ceased by 1785. 48 Some spin- ning was done in the workhouse in the later 18th century. 49 Of manorial land … were recorded, besides the evi- dence of spinning in the workhouse; there was a limekiln which remained in 1859, and a …
A History of the County of Essex
… and Wivenhoe Cross, which was con- verted to a parish workhouse. 55 In 1750 parish officers intended to build a new … house, but they apparently extended the existing small workhouse instead. 56 The surviving build- ing is arranged as … of late 18th-century houses. There were 25 people in the workhouse in 1755, and 22 in 1756. In 1759 there were only c. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the parish 2 and perhaps also in Oxford. There was no workhouse. In 1803 a total of 11 adults, mainly aged and …