a market-town of England, Oxfordshire, on the Windrush, a tributary of the Thames, 10 miles W.N.W. of Oxford, and 65 from London. It is a neat and well built town, consisting principally of two streets. Among the principal public buildings are the parish church, a handsome cruciform edifice, in the early English decorated and perpendicular styles, with a tower and lofty spire. The town-hall, with a piazza underneath for a market-house; a blanket-hall, and a market-cross. It has also a free grammar and other schools, and places of worship for Independents, Methodists, and Quakers. Witney has long been famous for its manufacture of blankets, which, though not so great as formerly, is still considerable. Pilot-cloths, tiltings for waggons and barges, felting for paper-makers, gloves and malt, are also manufactured to some extent in the town. Pop. (1851) 3099.