Many of the local blanket mill owners were Methodist or Non-Conformist by conviction and encouraged their workers to become so. The early Methodist meetings in Witney were held in a cloth weaving shop until the latter half of the 18th century when a chapel was built in the High Street...
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Isisbridge said:
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Many of the local blanket mill owners were Methodist or Non-Conformist by conviction and encouraged their workers to become so. The early Methodist meetings in Witney were held in a cloth weaving shop until the latter half of the 18th century when a chapel was built in the High Street...
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