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A History of the County of Oxford
… administration is discussed below: most of it lay west and south of the town in Curbridge township, perhaps because …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 30 Jan. 1970; Oxf. Mail, 17 Oct. 1975, p. 1; Anson, 'South-West Oxon.' p. 51. Oxf. Times, 30 Jan. 1970. Witney … Oxf. Times, 28 Sept. 1962; Oxf. Mail, 7 Aug. 1964; Anson, 'South-West Oxon.' 556; Cross, 'Ind. of Witney', 131; above, … 1977; 7 Nov. 1978; 4 June 1980, suppl. re Smiths'. Anson, 'South-West Oxon.' pp. 548; Cross, 'Ind. of Witney', 131. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were transferred about 19045 to the Leys recreation ground south of the church, where the Witney-feast fair continued in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… from fulling and corn mills at Waleys (now Farm) Mill just south of the borough, at Woodford (now Witney) Mill to its …
A History of the County of Oxford
… used for rugs of elaborate figured design destined for South Africa or South America. 49 Foreign markets continued to expand: by the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… built probably c. 1899. ( b) Bridge Street Mills from the south-west in 1999. 45. Witney Blanket Company premises, c. … dispatched by rail and sold worldwide. In the 1930s South Africa was a notable market, though most blankets were … later edns); Jenkins, 'Blanket Mills', 22; R. W. Anson, 'South-West Oxon.' (TS 1965), p. 57: copy in COS, Cross colln. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the recently established School of Science and Art at South Kensington; 76 nothing seems to have been done until … 87 New buildings included the former rectory house to the south, bought by the county council in 1969 and converted …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a late Bronze-Age sword found on the line of Emma's dyke south of Corn Street, a Bronze-Age spearhead found south of the town, and Iron-Age and Roman coins, 9 but except … on the north to the southern edge of Church Green on the south, and from the Windrush on the east to the rear of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 18th-century, but originally it was probably gabled to the south. No. 5 Church Green (the Hermitage) retains part of a … added soon after the house's first building. The hall lay south of the parlour at the centre of the building, with services further south again where a range of outbuildings, extending …
A History of the County of Oxford
… developing the extensive Witney Lakes and Meadows Park south of the town, on land bought in 1988. 134 Its income … 262 A new sewage works was built in the mid 1960s, just south of the parish boundary by Ducklington Lane. 263 Despite … and 1790s, probably a rented cottage, lay outside the town south of Hailey village, and in 1789 contained six rooms on …