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A History of the County of Oxford
… an abundant supply of wool, both from the Cotswolds to the west and (until the 1460s) from the bishop's own demesne; 52 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 22 while premises belonging to a small manufacturer at West End were sold in 1847. 23 Meanwhile the Blanket Company, … firm of Edward Early & Co. (with premises at New Mill and West End) in 1894, buying Woodford and Witney Mills (where he … and acquiring Henry Early's business at Woodgreen and West End apparently in the 1890s. 39 William Smith (d. 1874), …
A History of the County of Oxford
… probably c. 1899. ( b) Bridge Street Mills from the south-west in 1999. 45. Witney Blanket Company premises, c. 1935. … one director. Wages were negotiated between unions at the West of England District Joint Industrial Council, where … from the Second World War, Crawford Collets Ltd and the West London Optical and Tool Company both moving to Witney in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to the town's needs. John Holloway's Bluecoat school at West End, endowed in 1724, catered expressly for sons of … priority to Cogges and Newland. The Witney school, on the west side of High Street, 29 taught elementary reading to up … rector and his 'ladies' and the loss of some infants to West End National school, there was improvement. By 1870 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Witney, 1 by the river Windrush some 10 miles (16 km.) west of Oxford, originated as a planned medieval market town … the chief commercial, industrial and residential centre of west Oxfordshire, its population rising from under 4,000 in … on the east to the rear of tenement boundaries on the west, the western boundary following roughly the lines of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Corn) Street referred probably to quarries immediately west of the borough; manorial and (possibly) town quarries … largest is the former rectory house (Fig. 50) at the south-west corner of Church Green, built in 17213 for the rector … are numerous examples, particularly in Corn Street and West End -has a pitched roof, a two-bay frontage to the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were five. Paternoster and East wards lay respectively west and east of Church Green and the market place, West ward west of High Street and along Corn Street, Middle Ward along …
A History of the County of Oxford
… tower and its abutting range, and a chapel, aligned east-west and possibly two-storeyed, was built at the terrace's … another site. A storeyed block abutting the tower on the west, incorporating chambers and garderobes and associated … time, and there was some embanking around its south and west walls; in the late 12th century its interior may have …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney, and a second team vicar was placed in charge of West Witney; reorganisation in 1993 combined responsibility for new housing estates in west Witney with that for Hailey and Crawley. 10 Advowson … which stood just north of its 18th-century successor west of the church, seems to have included a 13th-century …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the 1520s Witney people were among a close-knit group of west Oxfordshire families accused of disseminating the … fallen to only 28 families. Baptists, whose activities in west Oxfordshire were concentrated elsewhere, 9 never … held in Burwell Hall on the Thorney Leys housing estate, west of the town. 67 Quakers (Friends) Quakerism seems not to …