Witney
About Witney
Welcome to the Witney edition of The Oxford Magazine.
Like a few of the former weaving towns in Oxford, Witney, the largest of the market towns in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds, is often placed among the best places to live in Britain.
The market square makes a very persuasive case, with its graceful period architecture from the 17th-century Butter Cross, where local women once gathered to sell butter and eggs to the early-18th century town hall across the street built using stone from quarries at Black Bourton. And, not forgetting the Blanket Hall and the Victorian Corn Exchange.
For some local flavour visit the Wychwood Brewery on weekends to be shown around and to taste the much-loved Hobgoblin brown ale. And also Cogges, a working Victorian manor farm right next to Witney that was the set for ‘Yew Tree Farm’ in Downton Abbey’s 2014 filming. It’s beamed 17th-century barns ooze period charm.
Local news & stories
Have your say on West Oxfordshire District Council’s 2022/23 budget
Residents and businesses are being urged to give their views on where West Oxfordshire District Council’s tax will be spent as it prepares its budget for the next financial year.
Owen Mumford investing £14m in new state-of-the-art facility in Witney
The new building is commissioned to align with the company’s strong sustainability agenda, and is designed in accordance with the latest environmental standards to obtain BREEAM certification.
Tungsten Properties sell four Witney warehouse units to BP Pension Fund
The four units at its new warehouse and industrial project at Tungsten Park in Witney were sold to Ropemaker Properties, part of BP Pension Fund, in an off-market transaction for £26m.
Grant saves 12 rural bus services from axe until April 2022
Oxfordshire County Council will use £275k of its existing Local Authority Bus Subsidy Grant (LABSG) to support the services which would otherwise have faced withdrawal in August 2021.
The Threshing Barn: light and spacious contemporary countryside living
One of four barn style properties in an attractive community of just six dwellings on a former farm, thoughtfully designed to echo the charm and character of the original buildings.
Cricket club gets electronic scoreboard from council grant
The club received more than £1,500 after pitching for funding from the Community Facilities Grant Scheme at West Oxfordshire District Council.
The Oxfordshire people recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2021
Here are all the Oxfordshire people recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2021. It includes a damehood for Professor Sarah Gilbert for her pivotal role in developing a COVID-19 vaccine.
Some of the best places to enjoy the sun in Oxfordshire
Summer is most definitely upon us, with soaring temperatures and wall-to-wall blue skies. We’ve rounded up some of the best places to enjoy the sun in Oxfordshire that our readers have told us about.
Stanley Court commercial development in Witney now fully let or sold
The 34 industrial/warehouse units on Richard Jones Road are now either under offer, let or sold by joint agents VSL and Carter Jonas acting for developer Glenmore.
Work on new cycling and walking improvements to start in Bicester and Witney
The work has been delivered at pace thanks to the £1.4 million of funding secured by the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (OxLEP) from the Government’s Local Growth Fund.
