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14-815: Witton may refer to one of several places in England: Witton, Northwich , historic name of an area of Northwich, Cheshire Witton Albion F.C. Witton Gilbert , County Durham Witton-le-Wear , County Durham Witton, an area of Blackburn , Lancashire Witton, Broadland , Norfolk, in the civil parish of Postwick with Witton , 5 miles (8 km) east of Norwich Witton, North Norfolk , Norfolk, near North Walsham, 19 miles (30 km) north of Norwich Witton, Birmingham , West Midlands Witton, historic name of East Witton , North Yorkshire Witton, historic name of West Witton , North Yorkshire People [ edit ] George Witton (1874-1942), Australian soldier in

28-428: A further parish, Ealing, unusually so for a medieval town. From the outset the townspeople of New Brentford, founded around St Lawrence's Hospital in the manorial land of Boston Manor in 1179, were "to worship at Hanwell on the four principal feasts and to be buried there", except "the infirm, chaplains, and their servants". Offerings, tithes (but a smaller portion after c. 1660) and an annual donation of wax went from

42-489: A lesser rate than mission rooms, which were usually cheaply built and declined after the invention of different modes of private wheeled transport. The vestry , whether a joint board with the whole parish or dedicated in each chapelry, was empowered under an Act of Parliament in the reign of Henry VIII to collect rates to improve the roads, other general purposes, and administer the Poor Law (e.g. indoor and outdoor relief ,

56-582: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Witton, Northwich Witton cum Twambrooks , known simply now as Witton is the name given to both a historic township and ward in Northwich in the borough of Cheshire West and Chester in Cheshire , England. The name is now used for a ward covering the town centre and railway station . The grade I listed St Helen Witton Church dates back in part to

70-724: The Speenhamland system and other wages systems) until the establishment of Poor Law Unions in the 19th century. The Poor Law Amendment Act 1867 declared that all areas that levied a separate rate should become civil parishes; thus their number approximately equalled the sum of ecclesiastical parishes and chapelries. Civil parishes have been abolished in many urban areas, removing the third tier of British local government. Pinner , Harrow and New Brentford , Hanwell were medieval-founded chapelries in Middlesex , constituted parishes in 1766 and 1660 respectively. Equally Old Brentford, as part of

84-439: The "curate/curacy" (dubbed sometimes the chaplain) to the rector, namely the parish priest, of Hanwell. Around 1660 New Brentford, already governed by its own vestry , was made a separate parish. In 1714 the rector of Hanwell managed to assert his right to the hay tithes from Boston manorial demesne but in 1744 he gave up the small tithes of New Brentford, all hay tithes except those from Boston demesne , and all offerings. In 1961

98-616: The 14th century. Until 1866, Witton was both a township and a chapelry in the Great Budworth parish in the Northwich hundred . In 1894 the parish was abolished and Witton later became part of the Northwich. Additionally, the village of Weaverham was part of the township of Hartford and the Witton chapelry. Northwich railway station opened in Witton on the Cheshire Lines which reached

112-530: The Boer War Hannah Witton (born 1992), English YouTuber and writer Henry Buckingham Witton (1831-1921), Canadian painter and political figure Mark P. Witton , British vertebrate palaeontologist Richard Witton (1423/4–1428), Master of University College, Oxford See also [ edit ] Whitton (disambiguation) Witton Park , County Durham Witton Country Park , Blackburn Wyton (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

126-414: The area around 1863. The station though opened as Northwich and the name remained unchanged. Witton was later absorbed and built up to Northwich town centre and now forms both the central and eastern parts of the town, although its name survives as a ward on Northwich Town Council. Chapelry A chapelry had a similar status to a township , but was so named as it had a chapel of ease (chapel) which

140-411: The chapelry: typically an area roughly equal to the old extent of the manor or a new industrious area. The chapels, as opposed to mission churches or mission rooms, had a date of consecration, dedication to a saint or saints, and typically their own clergy. They were by and large upgraded, that is (re-)constituted, into parishes. A small minority fell redundant and were downgraded or closed, though at

154-471: The country which had populous outlying places. Except in cities, the entire coverage of the parishes (with very rare extra-parochial areas ) was fixed in medieval times by reference to a large or influential manor or a set of manors . A lord of the manor or other patron of an area, often the Diocese, would for prestige and public convenience set up an additional church of sorts, a chapel of ease which would serve

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168-481: The parish of St. Lawrence, New Brentford, was amalgamated with St. George's and St. Paul's, Old Brentford, to form the united parishes of Brentford in the Church of England. In Cornwall the parish of St Minver had chapelries of Porthilly and St Enodoc; Probus had chapelries of Cornelly and Merther and there were others. St Ives was a chapelry of Lelant before it was granted parochial status (until 1902 Towednack

182-500: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Witton . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Witton&oldid=1246267133 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description

196-424: Was the community's official place of assembly in religious and secular matters. The fusion of these matters – principally tithes – was heavily tied to the main parish church. However, the medieval church's doctrine of subsidiarity when the congregation or sponsor was wealthy enough, supported their constitution into new parishes. Chapelries were first widespread in northern England and in larger parishes across

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