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18 Happy Years
We moved into Avon Carrow in November 1991, just after the M40 motorway had been extended to Warwick, and started the most rewarding living experience of our mature lives. The Carrow has an interesting history for such a ...Read more
A memory of Avon Dassett in 2009 by
Wild Orchids Growing At Badbury Rings
Every year I look forward to the Wimborne Folk Festival in June. After two days of busy performances I try to find time on the Sunday afternoon, of my return home, to do some local sightseeing and one of my ...Read more
A memory of Badbury Rings in 2008 by
6th Northwood Scouts Go Hostelling
I remember staying at the youth hostel in Greens Norton with the patrol leaders of the 6th Northwood Scout Group. I was an ASL (Assistant Scout Leader) with the troop for several years and as I had always ...Read more
A memory of Greens Norton in 1980 by
The Flying Horse
I worked at the pub on Parson Street. Banbury is a great town, to remember crazy memories, like when you did not have any money then there would be no electric or TV. I remember St Mary's church bell practice was on Wednesday ...Read more
A memory of Banbury in 1977 by
Lovely Days In Bigbury Onsea
Since summer 1972 I visited Bigbury a couple of times, sometimes together with friends, sometimes with my son Thomas. The last time we have been there in 1998 for a short visit just to keep up memories. We always used to ...Read more
A memory of Bigbury in 1972 by
B Ishop Loveday School And The Village
WE lived in Blackwood Place not sure what date we moved there I think it was about 1965 just after my sister Samantha was born. It was a new house .My sister Sam and I went to the school in the village and I ...Read more
A memory of Bodicote in 1970 by
Best Year Of My Life
We lived for a year in Middleton Cheney. My great grandfather was from England, but we never looked up relatives. I was only seven, but I remember so much of the town. We would go to market uptown everyday, our milk and ...Read more
A memory of Middleton Stoney in 1966 by
Battersea Park
I remember going to Battersea park on Sundays and going in the paddling pool by the jungle. We used to make a day of it having a picnic there. Mum used to get us to save a place by the tennis court so we could hang our costumes up to ...Read more
A memory of Battersea in 1962 by
I Returned 50 Years Later
My grandfather, Herbert Powell, owned the Korniloff Hotel after marrying his second wife, Ilse Buckingham, in the 1960's. We lived in the annexe that no longer seems to be there and I remember it as the happiest time of my ...Read more
A memory of Bigbury in 1962 by
Raf Greatworth
I remember arriving at RAF Greatworth in the back of the camps truck/transport in mid 1962, I had been collected from the railway station in Banbury fresh from training at RAF Locking. The RAF camp was a short walk from the village ...Read more
A memory of Greatworth in 1962 by
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Banbury once boasted a castle which enabled the town to grow in the shadow of its protective walls.
Bigbury-on-Sea lies on the shores of Bigbury Bay within site of Burgh Island, which may give the village its name.
Bigbury-on-Sea lies on the shores of Bigbury Bay within site of Burgh Island, which may give the village its name.
Banbury's splendid Town Hall with its noble entrance and tower, built in the 15th-century Gothic style, opened in 1854.
Situated near to the junction of two Roman roads and several prehistoric trackways, the Iron Age hillfort of Badbury Rings dominates the surrounding downland.
The long avenue of beech trees which lines the road beyond Wimborne, towards the ancient hillfort of Badbury Rings, is one of the finest sights in England.
Thurlestone takes its name from a holed, or thirled, rock just out at sea in Bigbury Bay, which was mentioned in a Saxon charter way back in 845.
Bigbury-on-Sea stands on a promontory above the River Avon, which rises high on southern Dartmoor.
The Oxford Canal was first opened as far as Banbury in 1778 and to Oxford in 1790.
The second largest town in Oxfordshire, Banbury has long been famous as the main meeting point of routes from the Midlands to London and Oxford.
Adderbury, south of Banbury, evolved as a result of the wool trade.
The splendid 17th-century panelling from this room was rescued from a London warehouse and returned to Banbury in the 1970s.
This photograph of the village of Byfield, on the old turnpike road midway between Daventry and Banbury, shows plenty of pedestrians, but no traffic.
The Oxford Canal was first opened as far as Banbury in 1778 and to Oxford in 1790.
Banbury is famous for its cross, a nursery rhyme and its cakes.
Above a great double avenue of beech trees, which line the road from Wimborne, lies the huge hillfort of Badbury.
The old village lies to the east of the Banbury road, and the magnificent 15th-century church spire is visible from miles around.
The long avenue of beech trees which lines the road beyond Wimborne, towards the ancient hillfort of Badbury Rings, is one of the finest sights in England.
This weird contraption takes visitors out to Burgh Island, which stands just off the mainland at Bigbury.
There was one death, the Conservative Club was stoned, and the visiting Emily Pankhurst had to take refuge in Banbury's County Stores (in the background, behind the horse).
Heading south-west towards Banbury, we now reach Upper Boddington, close to the Warwickshire border.
Since the 1960s this village has grown quite substantially, mainly to accommodate workers from Banbury, 3½ miles away.
The view from Kingston Lacy House shows the wooded Badbury Rings on the horizon.
Aynho, on the Oxfordshire border south of Banbury, is a beautiful ironstone village dominated by its great mansion, Aynho Park House.
