Witney
Sign in to saveWitney is a market town on the River Windrush in West Oxfordshire in the county of Oxfordshire, England. It is west of Oxford.
Key facts
- COA wide.escutcheon
- Vert on a fess wavy Argent between in chief a sinister glove of the last between two leopards' faces each holding in the mouth a shuttle Or and in base a representation of the Butter Cross at Witney Gold a barrulet wavy Azure.
- COA wide.motto
- Ingenio Floremus
- COA wide.notes
- Originally granted to the former Urban District council on 9 September 1955.
- COA wide.crest
- Upon a mount Vert between a crescent and a star Or a paschal lamb Proper.
- UK place.official_name
- Witney
- UK place.static_image_name
- St Mary the Virgin Church, Church Green, Witney - geograph.org.uk - 247742.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Mary the Virgin Church
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SP3509
- UK place.label_position
- bottom
- UK place.population
- 29,632
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021 Census)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Witney
- UK place.shire_district
- West Oxfordshire
- UK place.shire_county
- Oxfordshire
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.post_town
- Witney
- UK place.postcode_district
- OX28
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Witney is a market town on the River Windrush in West Oxfordshire in the county of Oxfordshire, England. It is west of Oxford.
==History== thumb|Holy Trinity parish church, Woodgreen thumb|The Butter Cross thumb|Witney Town Hall The place-name "Witney" is derived from the Old English for "Witta's island". The earliest known record of it is as Wyttannige in a Saxon charter of 969. The Domesday Book of 1086 records it as Witenie, in the ancient hundred of Bampton.