Chipping Norton
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Chipping Norton books (11 available)
Banbury Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Banbury - A History and Celebration
Hardback
Henley-on-Thames Town and City Memories
Paperback
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Chipping Norton memories
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Escape to the country
I travelled to Chipping Norton to start a new life. When I stepped off the coach on the high street and looked across the road I saw a very grand looking building and a sign saying The White Hart Hotel. My next thought was I am going to work in that hotel, which I did! I was also able to live-in, as other staff also did. The White Hart at that time was a privately run hotel with a friendly informal atmosphere, especially in the public bar which was very popular with local residents. The hotel was originally a coaching inn, and was one of the last, if not the last, to be used as such. The White Hart was also ...read more here
Contributed by Jane MacCallum
Oxfordshire memories
Escape to the country
I travelled to Chipping Norton to start a new life. When I stepped off the coach on the high street and looked across the road I saw a very grand looking building and a sign saying The White Hart Hotel. My next thought was I am going to work in that hotel, which I did! I was also able to live-in, as other staff also did. The White Hart at that time was a privately run hotel with a friendly informal atmosphere, especially in the public bar which was very popular with local residents. The hotel was originally a coaching inn, and was one of the last, if not the last, to be used as such. The White Hart was also ...read more here
A memory of Chipping Norton contributed by Jane MacCallum
The Hook Norton Brewery
This Oxfordshire village has a fine brewery and one summer's day they organised an open day, tours of the brewery, ale sampling and entertainment. I was part of that entertainment playing my accordian with the Whitethorn Band. The acoustics were absolutely fabulous as we sat on the kegs of beer and provided music for Whitethorn Morris and their repertoire of clog dances. When we had finshed both our tour of the brewery and our entertaining I was asked by the organisers where I had parked my car which I thought was rather strange! Then I realised why - they gave me two crates of Jackpot Ale as a thank you to our team of dancers and musicians. Our lovely day was ...read more here
A memory of Hook Norton contributed by John Howard Norfolk
The Marlborough
The white building in the picture below the church tower was the Marlborough pub. During the war through till the early 1950s my grandmother and grandfather were licencees and my father was brought up there. I have a picture of my grandfather and myself as a small child in the back yard of the pub. I'm not sure when it stopped being a pub - my grandmother left after my grandfather died in 1953, but the last time I went to Charlbury it was a private house.
A memory of Charlbury contributed by Diana Larkworthy
Extracts From Chipping Norton & Oxfordshire books
What a wonderful mish-mash of buildings are captured on camera here. Some are grand, others less so, but regardless of size or style they blend perfectly because they are made from the same rosy-hued local stone. Just outside the town stands Bliss Tweed Mills, built by George Woodhouse in 1872, whose thriving clothing business provided 700 jobs. The mill, topped by a soaring chimney stack, closed in 1981 and has since been converted into housing.
An extract from from"Cotswolds Revisited Photographic Memories".
The present church of St Mary’s dates back to the 14th and 15th centuries, with some earlier Norman features. Church Street has eight attractive gabled almshouses, with eight front doors but nine chimneys, dating from 1640.
An extract from from"Cotswolds Pocket Album".
One of the highest towns in Oxfordshire, Chipping Norton gets the ‘Chipping’ in its name from the Saxon word for market. Its prosperity dates back to at least the 13th century, though a village stood on this site long before that. Locals rarely call the place anything but ‘Chippy’. The Market Square is dominated by this dramatic 19th century Town Hall. Locals and visitors come from far and wide to sample the delights of Chippy’s Wednesday market which is held here—much as people have done for centuries.
An extract from from"Cotswolds Pocket Album".
The Town Hall, on the left,
dates from 1842; its imposing
stone portico faces onto the
High Street rather than the
Market Square - which, as
has become common in the
modern age, is being used as
a car park. The Co-operative
Society frontage makes a fine
contribution to the majestic
terrace on the right. Portraits
inside the Town Hall include
that of Alderman Wilkins. He
was the only English mayor in
Queen Victoria’s jubilee year
who had been mayor when
she acceded to the throne.
An extract from from"Cotswold Living Memories".
The Town Hall, on the left,
dates from 1842; its imposing
stone portico faces onto the
High Street rather than the
Market Square - which, as
has become common in the
modern age, is being used as
a car park. The Co-operative
Society frontage makes a fine
contribution to the majestic
terrace on the right. Portraits
inside the Town Hall include
that of Alderman Wilkins. He
was the only English mayor in
Queen Victoria’s jubilee year
who had been mayor when
she acceded to the throne.
An extract from from"Cotswold Living Memories".