Victoria County History of Oxfordshire XXI by Simon Townley, ... - 9781904356578

Name: Victoria County History of Oxfordshire XXI by Simon Townley, ... - 9781904356578
Brand: Victoria County History

Victoria County History

Victoria County History of Oxfordshire XXIChipping Norton and Area including Hook Norton and the Rollrights\nAuthor(s): Simon Townley, Simon Draper, Stephen Mileson, Mark Page, Simon Townley\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Victoria County History, United Kingdom\nImprint: Victoria County History\nISBN-13: 9781904356578, 978-1904356578\nSynopsis\nThis volume focuses on the Cotswold market town of Chipping Norton and on half a dozen surrounding rural parishes, including Hook Norton and the Rollrights. Drawing on intensive archival research, the authors look in detail at the town's origins, growth, and buildings, and at its economic, social, political, and religious history up to the present day, including its association with the medieval wool trade and the later development of the famous Bliss tweed mill. The surrounding parishes were predominantly agricultural and were reliant on traditional Cotswold sheep-corn farming, although Hook Norton developed significant ironstone quarrying in .