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A History of the County of Oxford
… together rendering 32 s. 6 d. a year. Probably they stood near the sites of Waleys or Farm Mill near the 12th-century manorial precinct, and of Woodford or … of the river Windrush. 1 Outlying mills at Hailey (near modern New Mill) and at Crawley were added probably in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… industry followed Smiths' initial success. An 8-acre site near the station was scheduled for industrial development in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… earth for scouring cloth, tentering racks (usually near the fulling mills) for stretching and drying it, and … over 550, leaving 'all the looms' and a house and workshop near the bridge to two sons. 118 Like their 16th-century … the late 17th or early 18th century. 159 A grocery shop near the town hall was mentioned in 1772, 160 and by the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were employed presumably at the bishop's quarries near Corn Street and elsewhere, which in the 13th and 14th … Witney) Mill to its north, and from a third fulling mill near the site of the later New Mill in Hailey. 56 The bishop …
A History of the County of Oxford
… mentioned in the 1840s and 1850s, 69 and the Union quarry near Tower Hill, opened for building Witney workhouse in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… among them a Wesleyan school held in a thatched building near the High Street meeting house. By the early 1820s the … 56 A separate infant school, housed at first in a building near the rectory house and later in the Wenman chapel in the … Central Secondary school was opened in 1930 in a house near Market Square given by the Batt family, descendants of a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… that a late Anglo-Saxon estate-centre existed on or near the same site. 7 The precise location and topography of … of Church Green, 11 evidence of earlier occupation on or near the site of the later town is lacking. 12 Borough … and the eastern boundary the river Windrush, the section near Crown Lane following the river's eastern channel to take …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (Fig. 17). 19 Possibly it formed part of a mansion house near there owned by the Yates, wealthy clothiers, 20 and by … in 1893; 149 Moore may also have designed Mount House near the church and Springfield at Woodgreen, both in a free … Woodstock. The bishops' moated and stone-built manor house near the church almost certainly predated the planned town, …