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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… supposed, from its Saxon etymology, viz., "the place of a town," to have been the site of an ancient ville of some … elevated, the views are very extensive, embracing the town of Preston, the river Ribble, and the district of the … and S. divisions of Devon; containing, with part of the town of Exmouth, 1192 inhabitants. It is bounded on the west …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… 1811 the villa site is said to have been called 'the old town'; an alternative name was 'Withington upon Wall-Well'. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… FOR THE POOR Almshouses The Church Green Almshouse and Town Feoffees By 1613 the borough owned an almshouse and … chiefly by subscriptions, loans, and a subvention from the town's Freeland estate charity, 1 together with sale of old … 2 The cottages remained part of the reconstituted Witney Town Charities in the late 20th century. 3 Under a decree by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… history: agriculture AGRICULTURE After the creation of the town Witney manor, encompassing the three rural townships, … is discussed below: most of it lay west and south of the town in Curbridge township, perhaps because fields belonging … usually also kept in hand. 3 In other respects, too, the town retained strong agricultural links until the 20th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… manorial precinct, and of Woodford or Witney Mill at the town's northern end, at what may both have been early …
A History of the County of Oxford
… industries if Witney was not to become largely a dormitory town, a recurrent theme in the second half of the 20th … incomers, began a fundamental and long-term shift in the town's social and economic structure. Such changes were … and commercial development. 2 The break with the town's pre-War economy was completed by the rapid decline, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… typical of a small, prosperous market and industrial town. Throughout the period some 3540 per cent of recorded … In the early 16th century Witney was a small but expanding town of probably under 1,000 inhabitants, with at least as … Even by the 1540s and 1550s, when wealth within the town was more evenly spread, it still lagged slightly behind …
A History of the County of Oxford
… stall-rents, seem not always to have mirrored those of the town generally: during the 13th and 16th centuries, both … declined or remained low, suggesting that much of the town's trading took place outside the formal market … 1540s Witney was nevertheless described as a 'great market town', 1 and several new fairs were established in the 18th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and there seems no doubt that by the 1270s Witney was a town in the fullest sense, notwithstanding its limited … other evidence suggests continued prosperity within the town as a whole, however, and certainly an assertion that it … or international scale. More general resurgence of the town's population and economy followed, though possibly not …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in adapting to new conditions largely accounting for the town's continued prosperity: in 1851 blanket-workers still … 2 and in the 1880s the industry was still called the town's 'staple' trade. 3 Difficulties in the 1850s, when the town's population fell through emigration, 4 may be partly …