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The Witney and District Museum is in the town of Witney, Oxfordshire, England.The museum opened in 1996.It is situated in the centre of Witney, towards the north end of the High Street.It has a spacious ground floor gallery, which houses a long-term exhibition, showing the history of Witney and its surrounding countryside, highlighting the changes that have taken place over the last millennium.
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Witney Museum Needs Volunteers
A beloved museum in Witney urgently needs more volunteers, as committee members admit they often have to close the attraction due to no-one being available to work. Witney and District Museum is currently featuring a colourful exhibition on Wychwood Forest, but without volunteers, members of the public will never be able to view it again.
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EU referendum result in Witney West Oxfordshire June 2016
A short video showing the referendum voting in West Oxfordshire. We speak to Cllr Ian Hudspeth who supported Remain and David Barnby who supported the Leave campaign.
West Oxfordshire is the Prime Minister David Cameron s constituency.
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Cogges Manor Farm Witney fly past Summer 2016 4K Aerial
Using UAV technology this is a short clip showing a fly past of the beautiful Cogges Manor Farm. Formally a museum, the site is owned by Oxfordshire County Council and rented to a charity, Cogges Heritage Trust on a lease and run as a visitor attraction.
Produced by Box Cottage Photography boxcottagephotography.co.uk
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Places to see in ( Abingdon - UK )
Places to see in ( Abingdon - UK )
Abingdon, also known as Abingdon on Thames or Abingdon-on-Thames, is a market town and civil parish in England. Historically the county town of Berkshire, since 1974 Abingdon has been the seat of the Vale of White Horse district in the administrative county of Oxfordshire.
Abingdon is 6 miles (10 km) south of Oxford, 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Witney and 19 miles (31 km) north of Newbury in the flat valley of the Thames on its west (right) bank, where the small river Ock flows in from the Vale of White Horse. Abingdon is on the A415 between Witney and Dorchester, adjacent to the A34 trunk road, linking it with the M4 and M40 motorways. The B4017 and A4183 also link the town, both being part of the old A34 and often heavily congested.
Abingdon has no rail service. The small, primarily stopping-service, railway stations at Culham and Radley are both just over 2 miles (3.2 km) away. Abingdon's eastern ring-road and newest suburbs are under a mile which is connected by footpath and cycleway from Radley railway station. The Radley to Abingdon railway station branch line closed to passengers in 1963.
Of the Benedictine Abingdon Abbey there remains a beautiful Perpendicular gateway (common local knowledge, however, is that it was actually rebuilt out of the rubble of the original. Abbey Gateway between the Abingdon County Hall Museum and the Guildhall remains a point of local importance.
St. Helen's Church dates from around 1100 and is the second widest church in England, having five aisles and being 10 feet (3 m) wider than it is long.St. Nicolas' Church, parts of which were built in 1180, is near the museum. Abingdon Bridge over the Thames, near St Helen's Church, was built in 1416.
Abingdon's county hall by the main market square, built in 1677–1680 reputedly by Christopher Kempster, stands on columns, leaving the ground floor open for a market and other functions. The Roysse Room was the site of Abingdon School (then 'Roysse's School') from 1563 until it moved to its current site after an indenture by John Roysse
Abingdon has the remains of a motte-and-bailey castle, which can be found to the north of the town centre surrounded by trees within a housing estate. A long-standing tradition of the town has local dignitaries throwing buns from the roof of the Abingdon County Hall Museum for crowds assembled in the market square on specific days of celebration
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Places to see in ( Chipping Norton - UK )
Places to see in ( Chipping Norton - UK )
Chipping Norton is a market town and civil parish in the Cotswold Hills in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England, about 12 miles southwest of Banbury and 18 miles northwest of Oxford. The Rollright Stones, a stone circle 2.5 miles (4 km) north of Chipping Norton, is evidence of prehistoric habitation in the area.
The town's name means 'market north town', with Chipping (from Old English cēping) meaning 'market'. Chipping Norton began as a small settlement at the foot of a hill on which stand the motte-and-bailey Chipping Norton Castle. Only the earthworks of the castle remain. The Church of England parish church of St. Mary the Virgin was built on the hill next to the castle. Parts of the present building may date from the 12th century.
Chipping Norton was one of the boroughs reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. Its neoclassical town hall was built in 1842. Chipping Norton had a workhouse by the 1770s. In 1836 the architect George Wilkinson built a new, larger workhouse.
The Chipping Norton Railway opened in 1855, linking the town with Kingham on the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway. In 1887 a second railway opened, linking Chipping Norton to the Oxford and Rugby Railway at King's Sutton, and the CNR became part of the resulting Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway. Extending the railway from Chipping Norton involved digging a tunnel 685 yards (626 m) long under Elmsfield Farm west of town.
Until 1962 Chipping Norton railway station served the town. Now the nearest stations are at Kingham and Ascott-under-Wychwood. A group of media, political and show-business acquaintances, some of whom have homes near Chipping Norton, including former Prime Minister David Cameron, is referred to in the media as the Chipping Norton set.
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Burford The Gateway To The Cotswolds.
Burford is a medieval town on the River Windrush in the Cotswold hills in West Oxfordshire, England. It is often referred to as the 'gateway' to the Cotswolds. Burford is located 18 miles (29km) west of Oxford and 22 miles (35km) southeast of Cheltenham, about 2 miles (3km) from the Gloucestershire boundary. The toponym derives from the Old English words burh meaning fortified town or hilltown and ford, the crossing of a river.
The town began in the middle Saxon period with the founding of a village near the site of the modern priory building. This settlement continued in use until just after the Norman conquest of England when the new town of Burford was built. On the site of the old village a hospital was founded which remained open until the Dissolution of the Monasteries by King Henry VIII. The modern priory building was constructed some 40 years later, in around 1580.
The town centre's most notable building is the Church of England parish church of Saint John the Baptist, which is a Grade I listed building. Described by David Verey as a complicated building which has developed in a curious way from the Norman, it is known for its merchants' guild chapel, memorial to Henry VIII's barber-surgeon, Edmund Harman, featuring South American Indians and Kempe stained glass. In 1649 the church was used as a prison during the Civil War, when the New Model Army Banbury mutineers were held there. Some of the 340 prisoners left carvings and graffiti, which still survive in the church.
The town centre also has some 15th-century houses and the baroue style townhouse that is now Burford Methodist Church. Between the 14th and 17th centuries Burford was important for its wool trade. The Tolsey, midway along Burford's High Street, which was once the focal point for trade, is now a museum.
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On Tenter Hooks Documentary with David Smith
This is a mini documentary that I made for the Witney Festival of the Fleece, in 2015. The festival was held in Cogges Farm Museum, Witney. This film blends rare footage from a Pathe 1920's film of blanket production, mixed with an interview with David Smith, who ran one of the blanket Mills.
This film has been created by Kelly Smith (2015) and content is copyrighted. Permission to use images and footage must be sought beforehand. Enjoy!
Spooky places in England
A passionate video clip set to the poisonous tones of Vengeance Is A Woman by Saphyre (from the Passion & Poison album). The scenes in this clip were taken in Epping Forest, Bodmin Jail, Longleat and various spooky places around the English countryside.
Driving in the UK: Abingdon - Oxford - M40 - M25 - A1 - A414
Places to see in ( Margate - UK )
Places to see in ( Margate - UK )
Margate is a seaside town in the district of Thanet in Kent, England. It lies 38.1 miles east-north-east of Maidstone, on the coast along the North Foreland and contains the areas of Cliftonville, Garlinge, Palm Bay and Westbrook.
For at least 250 years, Margate has been a leading seaside resort in the UK, drawing Londoners to its beaches, Margate Sands. The bathing machines in use at Margate were described in 1805 as four-wheeled carriages, covered with canvas, and having at one end of them an umbrella of the same materials which is let down to the surface of the water, so that the bather descending from the machine by a few steps is concealed from the public view, whereby the most refined female is enabled to enjoy the advantages of the sea with the strictest delicacy.
The Dreamland Amusement Park (featured in The Jolly Boys' Outing extended episode of the television series Only Fools and Horses) is situated in the centre of Margate. It reopened in 2015, having been closed since 2006 following a lengthy campaign by the group Save Dreamland Campaign. The Scenic Railway roller coaster at Dreamland, which opened in 1920, is Grade II* Listed and the second oldest in the world, was severely damaged in a fire on 7 April 2008 but has now been fully restored and reopened to the public in October 2015. Today the Dreamland roller coaster is one of only two early-20th century scenic railways still remaining in the UK; the only other surviving UK scenic railway is in Great Yarmouth and was built in 1932. The Margate roller coaster is an ACE Coaster Classic. Cliftonville, next to Margate, has a classic British Arnold Palmer seaside mini golf course.
There are two notable theatres, the Theatre Royal in Addington Street – the second oldest theatre in the country – and the Tom Thumb Theatre, the second smallest in the country, in addition to the Winter Gardens. The Theatre Royal was built in 1787, burned down in 1829 and was remodelled in 1879 giving Margate more national publicity. The exterior is largely from the 19th century.[15] From 1885 to 1899 actor-manager Sarah Thorne ran a school for acting at the Theatre Royal which is widely regarded as Britain's first formal drama school. Actors who received their initial theatrical training there include Harley Granville-Barker, Evelyn Millard, Louis Calvert, George Thorne, Janet Achurch, Adelaide Neilson and Irene and Violet Vanbrugh, among others. An annual jazz festival takes place on a weekend in June.
Margate Museum in Market Place explores the town's seaside heritage in a range of exhibits and displays, and is now opened at weekends by a team of volunteers. First discovered in 1798, the Margate Caves (also known as the Vortigern Caves) are situated at the bottom of Northdown Road. They are currently closed to the public.
The Shell Grotto, which has walls and roof covered in elaborate decorations of over four million shells covering 2,000 square feet (190 m2) in complex patterns, was rediscovered in 1835, but is of unknown age and origin. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building. There is a 16th-century 2-storey timber-framed Tudor house built on a flint plinth in King Street. Margate's Jubilee Clock Tower was built to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887, although not completed until 1889. It had a Time Ball mechanism, mounted on a mast atop the tower, which was raised a few minutes before 1pm each day and dropped at precisely 1pm, thereby allowing residents, visitors and ships to know the exact time. This was, of course, in the days before wireless transmission of time signals.
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Dreamland Margate
Shell Grotto, Margate
Turner Contemporary
Draper's Mill, Margate
Scenic Railway
Hartsdown Park
Botany Bay, Kent
Quex Park
Margate Beach
RAF Manston Spitfire & Hurricane Memorial Museum
Margate Museum
Margate Harbour Arm
Genting Casino Margate
Saint Mildred's Bay
St Peter's Church
Kingsgate Bay
Pegwell Bay
Monkton Nature Reserve
Margate Clocktower
Sunken Gardens
Dane Park
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Election 2010: Gordon Brown speech at his constituency c...
Election 2010: Gordon Brown speech at his constituency count in Kircaldy
Britannia - Get out of my way, I'm coming through
On a quiet country station in the Oxfordshire rain, BR standard Class 7, 70000 Britannia, shouts angrily at everyone to get out of the way as it rushes through a wet Hanborough Station at 57 mph, hauling the 19/12/2012 Steam Dreams Victoria - Gloucester Cathedrals Express along the Cotswold Line. (the old platform where the line had two tracks can still be seen)
First tho we have a First Great Western 180 Adelante class, on the Paddington - Great Malvern service, where the driver has trouble stopping on his mark.
Oxford to Charlbury Section of the Cotswold Line
After departing Oxford station, the Cotswold Line shares track with the Cherwell Valley Line to Banbury. About 220 yards (200 m) north of the station, the line crosses the Sheepwash Channel which links the Castle Mill Stream and Oxford Canal with the River Thames. Immediately east of the current line is a swing bridge over the channel which used to carry the London and North Western Railway's Buckinghamshire Railway line to its terminus at Oxford Rewley Road railway station.[9] The swing bridge is a listed building. The Rewley Road station building has been dismantled and re-erected at Buckinghamshire Railway Centre. The built up area east of the railway, visible across the Oxford Canal, is Jericho, a district which originated as lodgings outside the city walls where travellers could rest if they arrived after the gates were locked. The Eagle Ironworks of William Lucy & Co. was near the first road bridge over the track on Walton Well Road.
After the bridge, the open area to the left is Port Meadow, a water meadow bordering the Thames with a Bronze Age round barrow. The former LNWR Buckinghamshire Railway branches away to the north east. Proposals exist for re-opening the whole line and are included in the Draft Milton Keynes & South Midlands Sub-Regional Strategy, but there are many planning and funding matters to be resolved.
The line passes through Wolvercote. To the west, Lower Wolvercote was a centre for paper making, mainly for the Oxford University Press from the 17th century until 1998 and is the site of Godstow abbey, a Benedictine convent founded in the 12th century. The line passes under the viaduct carrying the A34 Oxford Western Bypass and 100 yards (91 m) further under the A40 road linking London and Fishguard.
The line now turns west; here the former Buckinghamshire Junction Railway link with the Buckinghamshire Railway used to converge from the east. About 4 miles (6.4 km) after Oxford station, Yarnton station was in the short stretch between here and where the Witney Railway diverged to the south-west. So far, the line has been close to the River Thames but the river now swings away to the south through a landscape dotted with gravel pits. The line now climbs the valley of the River Evenlode repeatedly crossing and re-crossing the river. Hanborough station serves the villages of Long Hanborough, Church Hanborough, Freeland and Bladon. The Oxford Bus Museum is next to Hanborough station.
From Hanborough the line enters the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and 1 mile (1.6 km) beyond Hanborough is Combe station. Building the line through Combe was difficult with several deep cuttings, four crossings of the Evenlode, and the diversion of a length of the river. To the south, just after the third river crossing are the remains of North Leigh Roman Villa. About 1 mile (1.6 km) beyond the villa the line crosses the course of Akeman Street Roman road. The Oxfordshire Way long-distance footpath follows Akeman Street from the north east to a point about 0.6 miles (1 km) north of the railway before turning to run through Stonesfield and meet the line at Charlbury station. The next station is Finstock. Between Finstock and Charlbury the deer park to the west of the line is Cornbury Park, original venue for the Cornbury Music Festival, which has now been replaced by the Wilderness Festival. The woodlands south west of the park are the remains of Wychwood Forest named after the Hwicce, one of the Anglo-Saxon peoples of Britain. Charlbury station is the start of the redoubled track and is first stop for faster trains over the line and retains its original Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway clapperboard building. Sir Peter Parker lived nearby at Minster Lovell and was a regular user of Charlbury station while chairman of the British Railways Board (1976 to 1983). The patronage of the head of the organisation may have helped to save the line at a time when the Serpell Report was calling for more rail closures.
Buses in Oxford 07/10/16
A short video of some of the buses in Oxford
Places to see in ( Great Missenden - UK )
Places to see in ( Great Missenden - UK )
Great Missenden is an affluent village with approximately 2,000 residents in the Misbourne Valley in the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, England, situated between the towns of Amersham and Wendover, with direct rail connections to London Marylebone. It closely adjoins the villages of Little Kingshill, Little Missenden and the larger village Prestwood. The narrow and historic High Street is bypassed by the main A413 London to Aylesbury Road. It is located in the heart of The Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The source of the Misbourne is to be found just north of the village, although the upper reach of the river runs only in winter and the perennial head is in Little Missenden. The village is now best known as home to the late Roald Dahl, the world famous author.
In 2011, The Guardian featured an article referring to how the village has been prime stockbroker belt for over a century and remarked favourably on its ancient churches, beech woods, deep valleys, rolling Chiltern Hills, higgledy-piggledy streets. That's why Dahl chose to live here. The paper also mentions its grand piles tucked away in the folds of the Chilterns, all paddocks, ponies and leafy lanes, such as Dahl's, Martinsend Lane, or Nags Head Lane. The Daily Telegraph, meanwhile, lists Great Missenden in its List of Britain's richest villages. The Telegraph also ranked the village #4 in its Best Places to Raise a Family in the UK 2015 survey, describing it as a gem of a town.
Great Missenden lay on a major route between the Midlands and London. Several coaching inns, particularly the Red Lion (now an estate agency) and The George (which still exists), provided rest and refreshment for travellers and their horses. The first railway line in the area was, however, routed alongside the Grand Union Canal to the east. Once the coaches stopped running Great Missenden declined in importance and prosperity, becoming an agricultural village. Following the arrival of the Metropolitan Railway, (later the London Underground's Metropolitan line) in 1892, Great Missenden became a commuter village for London with writers, entertainers and even Prime Ministers among the passengers. Great Missenden railway station is now on the Chiltern Railways line and offers fast services running into London Marylebone.
The village is overlooked by the medieval Church of England parish church of St. Peter and St. Paul and the High Street is also home to the thriving Catholic Church of The Immaculate Heart of Mary, one of the largest Catholic churches in the Chiltern District. The position of the parish church away from the village centre, however, suggests an earlier settlement around the church with a move of the village's heart to its present location in the early Middle Ages. In the twelfth century Great Missenden was granted a charter allowing it to hold an annual Fair in August. Missenden Abbey, founded in 1133 as an Augustinian monastery, was ruined following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and the remains were incorporated into a Georgian mansion which is now a conference centre.
Places in Great Missenden parish include :
Ballinger, located to the north east of Great Missenden, between Lee Common and Ballinger Common
Ballinger Bottom, located to the north east of Great Missenden, near South Heath
Ballinger Common, located to the north east of Great Missenden, near Ballinger
Bryant's Bottom, located to the west of Prestwood, near Speen
Frith-hill, located to the east of Great Missenden, on the road to Chesham
Heath End, located near the border with Hughenden parish, near Great Kingshill
Hotley Bottom, located to the north of Prestwood
Hyde End, located between South Heath and Hyde Heath
Hyde Heath, located near Little Missenden
Little Wood Corner, located to the south of South Heath
Mobwell, located in Great Missenden itself
Prestwood, a large village to the west of Great Missenden
South Heath, located to the north east of Great Missenden
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ADMRC Model Railway Exhibition 2019
Abingdon and District Model Railway Exhibition was held at Abingdon and Witney College in Abingdon on Saturday 16th March 2019.
The ADMRC Model Show had a number of Layouts and Gauges, for Z to O at the show and a number of those are shown in this Video.
The impressive Didcot A, N Gauge with operational Smoke and condenssation stacks was in one room, with a constant run of HST and coal locos.
Aerial views of Chiltern Open Air Museum
Founded in 1976 to rescue old buildings that would otherwise have been demolished. With authentic interiors visitors feel transported back in time when they go inside!
Music: B3 by BoxCat Games
Places to see in ( Leominster - UK )
Places to see in ( Leominster - UK )
Leominster is a market town in Herefordshire, England, and is located at the confluence of the River Lugg and its tributary the River Kenwater, approximately 12 miles north of the city of Hereford and approx 7 miles south of the Shropshire border, 11 miles from Ludlow in Shropshire.
From 1974 to 1996, Leominster served as the administrative centre for the former local government district of Leominster District. Leominster is also the historical home of Ryeland sheep, a breed once famed for its Lemster [sic] wool, known as 'Lemster ore'. This wool was prized above all other English wool in trade with the continent of Europe in the Middle Ages. It was the income and prosperity from this wool trade that established the town and the minster and attracted the envy of the Welsh and other regions.
Leominster railway station has Arriva Trains Wales services on the Welsh Marches Line, northbound to Manchester Piccadilly via Ludlow, Shrewsbury and Crewe as well as Holyhead via Shrewsbury, Wrexham General and Chester and southbound to Milford Haven or Cardiff Central via Hereford and Abergavenny and Newport; links to London Paddington are achieved by changing at Hereford, for services via Worcester and Oxford, or at Newport, South Wales.
Alot to see in ( Leominster - UK ) such as :
Croft Castle
Berrington Hall
Grange Court, Leominster town centre
Leominster Museum
Broadfield Court
Burford House Gardens
Priory Church, Leominster
Monkland Cheese dairy
Hampton Court
Stockton Bury Gardens
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Covered Market - Oxford
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