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Archives

If you wish to see any of these archives you are advised to contact the Archivist (e-mail:  witney.museum@virgin.net) before visiting the Museum as she works full-time elsewhere and is not usually on site.

Solicitors' papers (Ravenor, Lee & Batt)

deeds, wills, etc.; there is a card index to these documents

Records of local businesses

·  Ledger books [etc.] of Malachi Bartlett, a local building contractor

·  Some records of Earlys Blanket Mills

·  Barley Park Farm

·  funeral director's book

·  others

Workhouse records

·  Indoor relief register: a transcription will be added to this website soon

Maps

·  Hailey enclosure award and map, dated 1828

·  1840 tithe map and apportionment for Witney township (on display)

·  others

Other documents

·  Quit rent books

Ephemera

·  Bill heads etc.

1903 bill from Clarke's ironmonger

Links to other places with local archives

Oxfordshire Record Office: parish registers and other parish records; many deeds, wills, maps etc. relating to Witney; Quarter Sessions records; school records; records of Early's (other record offices; PRO) Centre for Oxfordshire Studies: transcripts of parish registers; census returns and surname indexes; newspapers; maps; printed papers Witney Library has copies of transcripts of parish registers for the Witney district, census returns on microfiche/microfilm, 1841-1901 for the Witney district; 1851 and 1871 census surname indexes; local newspapers on microfilm; newspaper cuttings files; Witney Town Council has burial records for Tower Hill cemetery