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Frontispiece Witney's southern end from the air in 1955. (Cambridge University Committee for Aerial
Archaeology P. V. 32. © Crown Copyright/MoD) |
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West Oxfordshire parishes c. 1880 |
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Geology and early settlement in the Witney area. (Reproduced from Allen, Mount House,
Fig. 1.2, by kind permission of Oxford Archaeology) |
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The Witney estate c. 1050: conjectural reconstruction, based on map and documentary evidence |
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An Anglo-Saxon boundary: St John's Lane (suga rode). (Photo VCH) |
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Witney Parish c. 1890, showing later urban expansion |
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Witney from the south-west in 1933. (Ashmolean Museum, Allen collection, album Gi, photo 109) |
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Witney Borough c. 1880, from contemporary maps. |
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Witney market place and Church Green, c. 1780. (V & A Picture Library, D.915–1904; reproduced,
with permission, from Bodleian Library, MS Top. Oxon. a 48, f. 70) |
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Witney: Church Green about 1856, etching by John S. Austen. (COS, OPA 79/7703) |
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Witney market place and High Street in 1832. (Bodleian Library, MS Top. Oxon. a 48, f. 69) |
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Witney: cottage yards west of High Street, drawn by William Langford in 1865. (V & A Picture Library, E. 2586.7,8,9–1917) |
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Witney: High Street c. 1880, photographed by Henry Taunt. (COS, OPA 6080) |
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Witney: Church Green in 1892, photographed by Henry Taunt. (COS, OPA 6087) |
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Witney Mills and the beginnings of the Springfield development, Burford Road, c. 1930. (COS, OPA 74/1. Reproduced by permission of Simmons Aerofilms Ltd) |
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Witney c. 1921: (a) Bridge Street and Woodgreen; (b) Church Green and Corn Street. (OS Map 1:2500, Oxon. XXXI.8, 1921 edn) |
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Witney: the Woolgate Shopping Centre, 1986. (COS, OPA 88/593) |
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Witney: the Corn Returns Office at the market place, 1851, drawn by William Seely. (COS, OPA 79/7639) |
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Witney: Nos. 3–5 Church Green (The Hermitage); measured and drawn by Nicholas Cooper, 2002 |
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Witney High Street in 1828, by S. Jones. (COS, OPA 79/7728, from an original in Witney town hall) |
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Witney: Buswells Row, Corn Street, in 1972. (© Crown Copyright. NMR. BB 73/2208) |
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Witney: working-class housing: (a) 13 Lowell Place in 1894, redrawn from a sale catalogue in ORO (Welch XXVIII/7); (b) 161 Corn Street (Buswells Row) in 1974, redrawn from plans in NMR, file 32436. |
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Witney: Cape Terrace, Gloucester Place. (photo VCH) |
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Witney: working-class housing: 3 Mill Street. Redrawn from a plan of 1968 by J. M. Lowe in West Oxfordshire District Council planning department (W530) |
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Witney: blanket factory behind 55–6 West End, c. 1910, redrawn from plans in the PRO (IR 58/65169/778) |
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Witney: former blanket factory behind 55–6 West End, 1988. (© Crown Copyright. NMR. BB99/02892) |
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The development of Witney Mills: (a) c. 1880; (b) c. 1910; (c) c. 1980; redrawn from plans in the PRO (IR 58/65168/929–32), and in the possession of Mr J. B. Crawford. |
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Witney: Mount Mills c. 1910, redrawn from a plan in the PRO (IR 58/65170/1002). |
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Witney union workhouse c. 1840, redrawn from plans in the Victoria and Albert Museum (E. 1448, 1, 2, 3–1977) and Bodleian Library (Bodl. G.A. Oxon. c 256 (55)). |
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Witney: the Blanket Hall and High Street, c. 1896, photographed by Henry Taunt. (COS, OPA 1991/150/10) |
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Witney: the Corn Exchange in 1974. (COS, OPA 74/2124) |
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Witney feast fair c. 1895, photographed by Henry Taunt. (COS, OPA 38093) |
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Witney: the Electric Theatre cinema c. 1913. (COS, OPA 1989/105/4) |
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Witney: captured German aeroplane in the market place, 1918. (COS, OPA 1975/36/6) |
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Witney: reconstruction of the medieval manorial curia from archaeological, documentary and map evidence. (Reproduced from Allen, Mount House, Fig. 6.1, by kind permission of Oxford Archaeology) |
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Witney: the manor house ('Witney Palace') as depicted by Samuel Buck c. 1729. (Bodleian Library, Gough Maps 26, f. 60) |
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Seal of the Witney Blanket Company, photographed c. 1898. (COS, OPA 4494-N) |
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Blanket factory at Woodgreen, from an etching of c. 1840. (COS, OPA 79/7641) |
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Witney Mills, spinning shed, c. 1898. (COS, OPA 1991/150/7) |
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Witney Mills, power-loom weaving shed, c. 1898. (COS, OPA 1991/150/4) |
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Witney Mills, fulling stocks, c. 1898. (COS, OPA 1991/150/11) |
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Occupations in Witney borough, 1851; from evidence in PRO, HO 107/1731. |
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Witney: Leigh and Sons' ironmongers, Market Square, c. 1930. (COS, 79/7670) |
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Witney: boiler supplied by Daniel Young of Witney, in transit from Witney station to Witney Mills, 1896. (COS, 74/386) |
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Witney: Bridge Street Mills: |
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(a) the street frontage in 1975. (COS, OPA 75/5839) |
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(b) aerial view of the mill site in 1999. (© Crown Copyright. NMR 8167/15. SP 3510/8) |
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Witney Blanket Company's Buttercross works at the Leys, c. 1935. (From a line-drawing in Witney Official Guide, c. 1934 edn) |
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Witney (formerly Curbridge): Smiths' of England Engineering works and Cubridge Downs Farm in 1970. (© Crown Copyright. NMR. SP 3210/1/358) |
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Witney: the cattle and sheep market, early 20th century, photographed by Henry Taunt. (COS, OPA 1989/98/8) |
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Witney: UDC water tower at Tower Hill, 1904. (COS, 80/12444) |
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Witney: the borough seal as depicted in 1852. (Reproduced from Giles, Hist. Witney, opposite p. 38) |
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Witney: the rectory house from the south-east, drawn by J.C. Buckler in 1825. (Bodl. MS Top. Oxon. a 69, no. 600) |
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Witney: plan of St Mary's church. (Redrawn, with modifications, from a plan by F.H. Crossley in ORO, MS dd Par. Witney, c 43, item c) |
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Witney: St Mary's church from the north-east in 1802, by J.C. Buckler. (Bodl. MS Top. Oxon. a 64, no. 24) |
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Witney: Woodgreen and Holy Trinity church in 1905, from the south-west. (COS, OPA 38074) |
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Witney Congregationalist chapel and High Street in 1969. (© Crown Copyright. NMR. BB 75/2811) |
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Witney: the 18th-century Methodist chapel, drawn by William Seely in 1849. (COS, OPA 79/7691) |
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Witney: the Methodist chapel and schools c. 1895, photographed by Henry Taunt. (COS, OPA 38097) |
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Witney grammar school: plan and elevation by P. Russell-Cox, c. 1944. (Reproduced by permission of English Heritage. NMR. B 44/3130) |
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Witney: Church schools treat, 1907. (COS, OPA 79/7715) |
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Witney: Holloway's almshouses at Church Green. (Reproduced from W. Wilkinson, English Country Houses (2nd edn 1875), plate 60) |
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Crawley village street in 2003, looking north. (Photo VCH) |
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Crawley: Chasewood Farm in 1874, as designed by William Wilkinson. (Building News, 16 January 1874, p. 66; reproduced by permission of the British Library from British Library LD. 86) |
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Crawley Manor Farm from the south-east in 2000. (© English Heritage. NMR. BB 001147) |
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Crawley township c. 1816; from contemporary maps and documentary evidence |
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Crawley Mill from the north-east, photographed by Henry Taunt c. 1896. (COS, OPA 1991/150/9) |
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Curbridge: the Merry Horn public house c. 1900. (From a photograph in the possession of Mr A. Crossley) |
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Curbridge: aerial view of Caswell and Caswell House Farm from the east in 1990. (© Crown Copyright. NMR 4365/03; SP 3208/5) |
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Curbridge: Caswell House from the south-east c. 1850, drawn by William Seely. (Bodl. MS Top. Oxon. b 91, no. 363 D) |
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Curbridge township, c. 1816; from contemporary maps and documentary evidence |
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Curbridge: St John's chapel (demolished 1906) in 1873. (Bodl. MS Top. Oxon. b 91, no. 329 A) |
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Hailey: Middletown in the early 20th century, looking north-west. (COS, OPA P/6095) |
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Hailey: Delly End green in 2003, looking north. (Photo VCH) |
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Hailey: Swanhall Farm from the south-west in 2000. (© English Heritage. NMR. BB 001145) |
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Hailey township, c. 1816; from contemporary maps and documentary evidence. |
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Hailey: New Mill c. 1830. (ORO, B1/PH1/8, from a painting by T. Langford in Oxfordshire County Council Museums store; reproduced by kind permission of the Early's Archive Trust) |
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Hailey: chapel of St John the Evangelist (demolished c. 1868), drawn by William Langford c. 1860. (Bodl. MS Top. Oxon. d 218, f. 114) |
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Hailey: the chapel of St John the Evangelist (built 1868–9) in the early 20th century. (COS, OPA P/6090) |
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