List of maps, plans, and illustrations

A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 14, Bampton Hundred (Part Two). Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 2004.

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A P Baggs, Eleanor Chance, Christina Colvin, Nicholas Cooper, Alan Crossley, Christopher Day, Nesta Selwyn, Elizabeth Williamson, Margaret Yates, 'List of maps, plans, and illustrations', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 14, Bampton Hundred (Part Two), ed. Simon Townley( London, 2004), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol14/ix-xi [accessed 22 November 2024].

A P Baggs, Eleanor Chance, Christina Colvin, Nicholas Cooper, Alan Crossley, Christopher Day, Nesta Selwyn, Elizabeth Williamson, Margaret Yates, 'List of maps, plans, and illustrations', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 14, Bampton Hundred (Part Two). Edited by Simon Townley( London, 2004), British History Online, accessed November 22, 2024, https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol14/ix-xi.

A P Baggs, Eleanor Chance, Christina Colvin, Nicholas Cooper, Alan Crossley, Christopher Day, Nesta Selwyn, Elizabeth Williamson, Margaret Yates. "List of maps, plans, and illustrations". A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 14, Bampton Hundred (Part Two). Ed. Simon Townley(London, 2004), , British History Online. Web. 22 November 2024. https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol14/ix-xi.

LIST OF MAPS, PLANS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS

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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1 West Oxfordshire parishes c. 1880 xiv
2 Geology and early settlement in the Witney area. (Reproduced from Allen, Mount House, Fig. 1.2, by kind permission of Oxford Archaeology) 2
3 The Witney estate c. 1050: conjectural reconstruction, based on map and documentary evidence 4
4 An Anglo-Saxon boundary: St John's Lane (suga rode). (Photo VCH) 6
5 Witney Parish c. 1890, showing later urban expansion 9
6 Witney from the south-west in 1933. (Ashmolean Museum, Allen collection, album Gi, photo 109) 16
7 Witney Borough c. 1880, from contemporary maps. 18
8 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) 22
9 Witney: Church Green about 1856, etching by John S. Austen. (COS, OPA 79/7703) 24
10 Witney market place and High Street in 1832. (Bodleian Library, MS Top. Oxon. a 48, f. 69) 25
11 Witney: cottage yards west of High Street, drawn by William Langford in 1865. (V & A Picture Library, E. 2586.7,8,9–1917) 26
12 Witney: High Street c. 1880, photographed by Henry Taunt. (COS, OPA 6080) 27
13 Witney: Church Green in 1892, photographed by Henry Taunt. (COS, OPA 6087) 28
14 Witney Mills and the beginnings of the Springfield development, Burford Road, c. 1930. (COS, OPA 74/1. Reproduced by permission of Simmons Aerofilms Ltd) 29
15 Witney c. 1921: (a) Bridge Street and Woodgreen; (b) Church Green and Corn Street. (OS Map 1:2500, Oxon. XXXI.8, 1921 edn) 30–31
16 Witney: the Woolgate Shopping Centre, 1986. (COS, OPA 88/593) 33
17 Witney: the Corn Returns Office at the market place, 1851, drawn by William Seely. (COS, OPA 79/7639) 34
18 Witney: Nos. 3–5 Church Green (The Hermitage); measured and drawn by Nicholas Cooper, 2002 34
19 Witney High Street in 1828, by S. Jones. (COS, OPA 79/7728, from an original in Witney town hall) 35
20 Witney: Buswells Row, Corn Street, in 1972. (© Crown Copyright. NMR. BB 73/2208) 41
21 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. 41
22 Witney: Cape Terrace, Gloucester Place. (photo VCH) 42
23 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) 43
24 Witney: blanket factory behind 55–6 West End, c. 1910, redrawn from plans in the PRO (IR 58/65169/778) 45
25 Witney: former blanket factory behind 55–6 West End, 1988. (© Crown Copyright. NMR. BB99/02892) 46
26 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. 46–47
27 Witney: Mount Mills c. 1910, redrawn from a plan in the PRO (IR 58/65170/1002). 48
28 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)). 51
29 Witney: the Blanket Hall and High Street, c. 1896, photographed by Henry Taunt. (COS, OPA 1991/150/10) 56
30 Witney: the Corn Exchange in 1974. (COS, OPA 74/2124) 61
31 Witney feast fair c. 1895, photographed by Henry Taunt. (COS, OPA 38093) 64
32 Witney: the Electric Theatre cinema c. 1913. (COS, OPA 1989/105/4) 66
33 Witney: captured German aeroplane in the market place, 1918. (COS, OPA 1975/36/6) 67
34 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) 70
35 Witney: the manor house ('Witney Palace') as depicted by Samuel Buck c. 1729. (Bodleian Library, Gough Maps 26, f. 60) 72
36 Seal of the Witney Blanket Company, photographed c. 1898. (COS, OPA 4494-N) 83
37 Blanket factory at Woodgreen, from an etching of c. 1840. (COS, OPA 79/7641) 89
38 Witney Mills, spinning shed, c. 1898. (COS, OPA 1991/150/7) 91
39 Witney Mills, power-loom weaving shed, c. 1898. (COS, OPA 1991/150/4) 92
40 Witney Mills, fulling stocks, c. 1898. (COS, OPA 1991/150/11) 92
41 Occupations in Witney borough, 1851; from evidence in PRO, HO 107/1731. 93
42 Witney: Leigh and Sons' ironmongers, Market Square, c. 1930. (COS, 79/7670) 95
43 Witney: boiler supplied by Daniel Young of Witney, in transit from Witney station to Witney Mills, 1896. (COS, 74/386) 95
44 Witney: Bridge Street Mills:
(a) the street frontage in 1975. (COS, OPA 75/5839) 98
(b) aerial view of the mill site in 1999. (© Crown Copyright. NMR 8167/15. SP 3510/8) 98
45 Witney Blanket Company's Buttercross works at the Leys, c. 1935. (From a line-drawing in Witney Official Guide, c. 1934 edn) 99
46 Witney (formerly Curbridge): Smiths' of England Engineering works and Cubridge Downs Farm in 1970. (© Crown Copyright. NMR. SP 3210/1/358) 102
47 Witney: the cattle and sheep market, early 20th century, photographed by Henry Taunt. (COS, OPA 1989/98/8) 104
48 Witney: UDC water tower at Tower Hill, 1904. (COS, 80/12444) 125
49 Witney: the borough seal as depicted in 1852. (Reproduced from Giles, Hist. Witney, opposite p. 38) 129
50 Witney: the rectory house from the south-east, drawn by J.C. Buckler in 1825. (Bodl. MS Top. Oxon. a 69, no. 600) 133
51 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) 138
52 Witney: St Mary's church from the north-east in 1802, by J.C. Buckler. (Bodl. MS Top. Oxon. a 64, no. 24) 141
53 Witney: Woodgreen and Holy Trinity church in 1905, from the south-west. (COS, OPA 38074) 143
54 Witney Congregationalist chapel and High Street in 1969. (© Crown Copyright. NMR. BB 75/2811) 147
55 Witney: the 18th-century Methodist chapel, drawn by William Seely in 1849. (COS, OPA 79/7691) 151
56 Witney: the Methodist chapel and schools c. 1895, photographed by Henry Taunt. (COS, OPA 38097) 152
57 Witney grammar school: plan and elevation by P. Russell-Cox, c. 1944. (Reproduced by permission of English Heritage. NMR. B 44/3130) 156
58 Witney: Church schools treat, 1907. (COS, OPA 79/7715) 160
59 Witney: Holloway's almshouses at Church Green. (Reproduced from W. Wilkinson, English Country Houses (2nd edn 1875), plate 60) 165
60 Crawley village street in 2003, looking north. (Photo VCH) 172
61 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) 175
62 Crawley Manor Farm from the south-east in 2000. (© English Heritage. NMR. BB 001147) 177
63 Crawley township c. 1816; from contemporary maps and documentary evidence 178
64 Crawley Mill from the north-east, photographed by Henry Taunt c. 1896. (COS, OPA 1991/150/9) 186
65 Curbridge: the Merry Horn public house c. 1900. (From a photograph in the possession of Mr A. Crossley) 196
66 Curbridge: aerial view of Caswell and Caswell House Farm from the east in 1990. (© Crown Copyright. NMR 4365/03; SP 3208/5) 199
67 Curbridge: Caswell House from the south-east c. 1850, drawn by William Seely. (Bodl. MS Top. Oxon. b 91, no. 363 D) 205
68 Curbridge township, c. 1816; from contemporary maps and documentary evidence 214–215
69 Curbridge: St John's chapel (demolished 1906) in 1873. (Bodl. MS Top. Oxon. b 91, no. 329 A) 223
70 Hailey: Middletown in the early 20th century, looking north-west. (COS, OPA P/6095) 226
71 Hailey: Delly End green in 2003, looking north. (Photo VCH) 229
72 Hailey: Swanhall Farm from the south-west in 2000. (© English Heritage. NMR. BB 001145) 235
73 Hailey township, c. 1816; from contemporary maps and documentary evidence. 239
74 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) 247
75 Hailey: chapel of St John the Evangelist (demolished c. 1868), drawn by William Langford c. 1860. (Bodl. MS Top. Oxon. d 218, f. 114) 250
76 Hailey: the chapel of St John the Evangelist (built 1868–9) in the early 20th century. (COS, OPA P/6090) 252
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