WITNEY: A QUIET TOWN IN UNQUIET TIMES.(Witney, a village near Oxford, England)

From: Contemporary Review | Date: September 1, 2001| Author: Doering, Jonathan W. | Copyright information

Witney, a modest country town twelve miles to the west of Oxford, has stood in one form or another for centuries. Its small size, and the modern, blank-faced housing estates which are springing up in a ring around the original town (in keeping with many areas of Britain, Witney has been instructed to provide thousands of new homes over the next few years), seemingly declaring it to be merely a conurbation serving Oxford and Banbury, are belied by the town's history. The persistence ...

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