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A History of the County of Oxford
… other machinery. 73 In 1966 it was bought by Oxfordshire County Council for use a record store, but was sold in 1998. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… West Oxfordshire) with far heavier unemployment than the county average. Firms looking for provincial locations …
A History of the County of Oxford
… expanding cloth industry, already unrivalled within the county and marked, from the early 17th century, by increasing … and population centre for west Oxfordshire: within the county only Oxford, Banbury, and Henley had larger … the Company's area of jurisdiction. 104 The Company's courts passed bylaws specifying the dimensions and weight of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Hist. Witney, 69. Oxf. Chron. 7 Sept. 1844, 19 Sept. 1846; Monk, Hist. Witney, 4951. Kelly's Dir. Oxon. (1939); …
A History of the County of Oxford
… group of foreign traders, the largest recorded in the county outside Oxford; among them were two corvesers, though …
A History of the County of Oxford
… three or four solicitors, among them Daniel Westell (d. 1846), whose family firm continued until the early 20th … in the 1880s acting also as coroner, bailiff of the county court, and clerk to the burial board. 94 Prominent … custom of prominent blanket manufacturers; the London and County Bank, which had opened an agency at Witney by the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… despite large government grants and assistance from the county council. 19 Witney Grammar School 20 Witney grammar … land at Longworth (then Berks.). His widow Mary secured an Act in 1663 governing its regulation, by which the site, … by the usher and writing master Charles Collier (appointed 1846), a vigorous teacher who provided the sound elementary …
A History of the County of Oxford
… when Witney was one of the fastest-growing towns in the county, increased it to 666 ha. (1,645 a.), 4 rising to 922 … landowners, professionals, bankers, and brewers; an Act of incorporation was obtained the following year, and a … substantial two-storeyed dwellings, often incorporating 'courts' as well as gardens presumably at the rear, and many …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was installed in the principal, ground floor room. 196 County Court In the early 1850s county magistrates held courts in the town hall or Staple Hall Inn. 197 A … against the bailiffs and their property if they failed to act. In response the bailiffs offered a reward for …