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A History of the County of Oxford
… Anson, 'South-West Oxon.' (TS 1965), p. 57: copy in COS, Cross colln. DC 1; Witney Gaz. 6 Mar. 1980, p. 6; ORO, Witney … 1978), 201; Anson, 'South-West Oxon.' p. 57; D. A. E. Cross, 'Witney's Famous Fires', Witney Gaz. 11 Dec. 1964; C. … since 1945). Anson, 'South-West Oxon.' p. 55; D. A. E. Cross, 'Ind. of Witney', Jnl. Industrial Archaeol. i (1964), …
A History of the County of Oxford
… on Bridge Street, converted from a malt house and several cottages. Though the initiative came reportedly from the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… presumably along the line of Corn Street and Crown Lane to cross the river at an early ford. 54 Westwards it connected, … borough rents, as in other towns, were probably for cottages, small encroachments, or workshops, 143 though the … which time there was a public house there, 278 and small red-brick terraces further south on Burford Road, overlooking …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the demolished Crown Hotel opposite the Butter Cross, both of which may have originated as substantial … almshouses at Church Green, converted from three to four cottages before 1761, were rebuilt as a row of six in 1795. … Henry Dorne (d. 1785), besides his own house, owned the Red Lion and at least thirteen dwellings mostly along Corn …
A History of the County of Oxford
… together with responsibility for the town hall and Butter Cross and continuing involvement in town charities, though … town inspectors continued to appoint a 'blue-coated and red-collared beadle'. 174 Witney was said to be 'very … when the overseers rented from the town feoffees three cottages on the site of No. 45 Corn Street, which were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… bishop of Winchester, granted it to the hospital of St Cross in Winchester. 11 St Cross's ownership was confirmed in … to form altar recesses. In 1867 traces of white and of red or brown colouring were discovered on the splays of the … beneath the west side of the tower, was probably the 'red rood' before which a parishioner asked to be buried in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… stands in a fertile vale, and consists chiefly of detached cottages with gardens neatly laid out; it is intersected by … bridge of stone was erected in 1837. Upon the village cross is the date 1698, which is most probably the time when …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… park abounds with fine timber, and is well stocked with red and fallow deer: the oak-tree on which Hobbs, the last …