Neithrop

Coordinates: 52°03′37″N 1°21′45″W / 52.06025°N 1.36256°W / 52.06025; -1.36256
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Neithrop
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
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List of places
UK
England
Oxfordshire
52°03′37″N 1°21′45″W / 52.06025°N 1.36256°W / 52.06025; -1.36256
Banbury's Peoples' Park in Neithrop, during 2001.
Neithrop Library in Woodgreen, Banbury in 2009.

Neithrop is an inner housing estate and part of the greater Neithrop ward of Banbury, in the Cherwell district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England.[1][2][3] It is one of the oldest areas in Banbury, having first been first recorded as a hamlet in the 13th century.[4] Neithrop, Woodgreen and Bretch Hill are three interconnecting housing estates.[1][2][3]

History

The innermost part of Neithrop at the "Shires" crossroads near Banbury town centre (L) in 1999, prior to the 2003 redevelopment, and (R) in 2009
The furniture shop and the abandoned 1970s housing building in Neithrop
A Neithrop 1970s housing complex by the police station. It has been deserted since circa 2004. It was slated for redevelopment circa 2012–2013.

In 1247 the

Williamscot, Swalcliffe Lea, and the former "prebend" of Banbury. By 1568 these, except the rent from Wardington and amounted to 69s. 4d. in 1652, when the total profits of court were valued at 103s. 4d. a year in "certainty money".[clarification needed] In 1875 payments were made only by Williamscot, Swalcliffe, Prescote, Great and Little Bourton, Neithrop, Claydon, and Shutford since the rest were freed from their rent obligations.[5]

In 1225 there were 46 tenants in Neithrop with average land holding 1.3 yardlands, but by 1441 there were 21 tenants with an average holding 2.9 yardlands and by 1575 a further land amalgamation had been carried out with only 17 tenants retaining an average holding 3.5 yardlands.[4] The Bishop of Lincoln's vast Banbury estate, except for Neithrop and Calthorpe, was sold to the Duke of Somerset in 1547, but by 1550 he granted it (except for Hardwick) to John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, then the Duke of Northumberland shortly afterwards, who in 1551 granted it to the Crown in exchange for other lands.[6]

In 1545, Bishop Longland leased Easington to his holy

leasing of the episcopal estate was a phenomenon of the times.[7] This part of Banbury was the scene of rioting in 1589 after the local maypole was destroyed by Puritans.[8] Long before enclosure, the tenants of Neithrop had become freeholders, as recorded in the land deeds of 1583 to 1608 and 1614, with the permission of both Sir Anthony Cope and then his son Sir William Cope.[4] The Land rights over the tenants' land of the former episcopal estate in the boroughs of Calthorpe and Neithrop seem to have passed to the Cope family, which also held property there which had been included in the Duke of Somerset's land grant of Hardwick to Anthony Cope in 1548. In the early 17th century the Copes granted the freehold of much of their Neithrop land to their tenants and lessees, such as the Parnells, in an act of great generosity for this time.[6]

Further expansion in Neithrop occurred after 1850; thus St. Paul's Terrace and the houses on the west side of Paradise Road were among several small terraces that had been built in Neithrop village before 1881, besides some 50 houses in the newly laid out Park Road and Queen Street.[9] A sawmill, timber yard and vine nursery had all come into existence behind the Magistrates court by 1882 and along Green Street and Nursery Lane, but only the Nursery Lane/Green Street vine nursery had survived until the 1920s. The by then town of Neithrop was formally incorporated into the borough of Banbury in 1889.[1]

Banbury town council built the houses in King's Road and on the Easington estate at the time. Other working-class type houses were built at the south end of Britannia Road and the area to the east between 1881 and 1930, and also in both Old Grimsbury Road and Gibbs Road in Grimsbury. More up-market houses were built in both the Marlborough Road area and in Bath Road, Kings Road, Park Road, and Queen Street in Neithrop.[4][10]

Neithrop used to be the site of Banbury's mid Victorian workhouse and later contagious diseases hospital,which was situated in Warwick Road for about 100 years.[11] After World War II the workhouse was used as a hospital until it was demolished and built over in the 1980s. There have been various housing developments since the late 1980s. A old car show room and garage, opposite the Texaco garage, was demolished and replaced by a local housing scheme, in 2004, as was an old warehouse and car park that lay next to The Shires crossroads.

Neithrop was formerly a township in the parish of Banbury,[12] in 1866 Neithrop became a separate civil parish, on 1 April 1932 the parish was abolished and merged with Banbury.[13] In 1931 the parish had a population of 8165.[14]

Major amenities

A major furniture shop, police station and a Texaco garage are located in the ward.

Schools

Neithrop is also home to a specialist school:

  • Frank Wise School
    (primary specialist)

Recreational areas and parks

Neithrop is home to the People's Park which opened in 1910, has a bird house, tennis courts, a large field and a children's play area. The park is often used in the summer to hold small festivals. The park is also one of the town's biggest in terms of the area covered and one of the few major ones not to be built on a steep hill like Calthorpe Park is.

Woodgreen

History

The popular Woodgreen swimming pool in 2004
The Admiral Holland Pub in Banbury in 2010
The Woodgreen shopping arcade in 2010. It was built in 1961 and was scheduled to be redeveloped in 2012 or 2013. The fenced off part with the black and red concrete is where the former play park once stood.
The demolition of the old 1964 Woodgreen youth club in late 2010
The building of the new Woodgreen youth club in late 2010 (left and centre) and early 2011 (right)

The Woodgreen estate lies in the intermediate area between the Neithrop and Bretch Hill

housing estates[1][2][3] and was built over the former Victorian village of Wood Green in the 1930s. The name 'Woodgreen' was hyphenated from 1927 to 1937, and merged by 1947. An Ordnance Survey map from 1882 reveals Park Road and part of Queen's road were partly built. Queen's road was completed by the 1900 map edition and King's road was mostly completed by the 1922 edition. Banbury's Woodgreen Youth Centre was built in 1964 and opened in 1965.[15][16] It is situated in Woodgreen, next to both the Neithrop Library[17] and the Woodgreen Leisure Centre.[18][19][20][21][22] The low rise flats called Kennedy House were named after US President John F. Kennedy
when they were built in the mid-1960s.

The Woodgreen swimming pool

The Woodgreen swimming pool was opened in early 1939 and renovated in the late 1970s. It was closed in the early 2000s, heavily renovated in 2009 and reopened in 2010.[18][19][20] The much frequented outdoor pool is closed from September to March due to the bad seasonal weather.[22][23]

The Admiral Holland pub

The Admiral Holland pub and the neighbouring houses were built circa 1960–1961. The pub was named after Vice-Admiral

Battle of Denmark Strait in May 1941 against the German battleship Bismarck. He died aboard HMS Hood when attacking Bismarck in the Denmark Strait. The pub was demolished in 2017.[25]

Recreational areas and parks

The Yellow Park was one of the smallest parks in Banbury. It is situated next to a youth centre on Hilton Road in the Neithrop ward. The park gets its name from the fact that the slide, monkey bars and climbing frame are all yellow. It also has swings inside the play area. There is also a small field in the park measuring approximately 2000 m2. It was destroyed when the youth centre was expanded in 2010.

The Woodgreen Arcade play park 52°03′48″N 1°21′10″W / 52.063267°N 1.352726°W / 52.063267; -1.352726 (approx.) was a minor play park by the Woodgreen Arcade. It was removed in 2006 after youths set the two spring riders on fire in 2002. This along with the general increase in vandalism and litter lead to the park's closure. The charred spring riders, the bench and the small roundabout were removed at this date. It was later tarmacked over and public access restored a short while later. The sizeable Stanbridge Park is roughly two-thirds the size of Princess Diana Park and contains the Stanbridge Children's Play Park and a netball court. It runs between Bretch Hill and Woodgreen.

Recent crimes and anti-social behaviour

St. Louis Meadow park area was set for an £80,000 refurbishment on 3 September 2010.

fire fighters were called to the play area in St. Louis Meadow park, after a member of public reported a fire inside the play area. A plastic tunnel had been deliberately burnt by local youths. It will take £85,000 to repair the devastated park.[27]

This tragically mirrored an event in the Spiceball park that caused heavy damage on 8 February 2007, but did not deter the council from doing its planned £90,000

fly-tipping in Banbury also affects some streets and footpaths such as on the Ironstones' paths.[29]

Local redevelopment plans

Woodgreen's 45-year-old

£3,000,000.[15][16]
The small shopping complex, called the Woodgreen Arcade, which includes a Chinese takeaway shop, chemists and a popular convenience shop, is on the opposite side of the road to the Admiral Holland pub. It was built in the early 1960s and was slated for redevelopment in 2010, unlike the similarly aged pub.

Bretch Hill

History

Princess Diana Park, and the adjoining 'wheeled activity' park's roller-skating arch facility in Banbury's Bretch Hill estate during 2010
St. Pauls Church, Neithrop, Banbury, Oxfordshire in 2010

Bretch Hill is a housing estate in the Neithrop ward of Banbury, Oxfordshire.

council estate, but today many of its houses are owner-occupied and the remainder are owned by a housing association
.

Only a couple of farms and the Neithrop Guardens orchards stood in the unspoiled countryside until the 1940s. Wythicome Drive was built in 1947, but development then slowed and re-focused on Woodgreen. Most of the streets' first inhabitants were from Banbury, London and

watertower and communications transmissions mast
) in the 1960s, closed in 1990 and has been derelict ever since. Trinity Close and Powys Grove were originally created as separate entities between the late 1960s and early 1980s. Claypits Close was built circa 2007 and named after the old clay pit it was built on. There were many small, Victorian clay pits and kilns in the south west of Banbury, but they had closed by the 1920s.

The Bradley Arcade

The Bradley Arcade shopping centre was built circa 1965[30] and named after police inspector James Roy Bradley, who was deliberately run down and killed by wanted criminals at a local police road block in 1967.[31][32]

The Willy Freund Centre

The Willy Freund Centre closed in 2004 due to a funding crisis and increasing teenage rowdiness. It was reopened in September 2010, after a six-month period of heavy renovation work. Prior to 2004 and since reopening it is the local youth centre.[33][34]

Schools

Bretch Hill is served by four schools:

Recreational areas and parks

The later Orchard fields school and Princess Diana park in 2005 and 2010

There were some concerns over anti-social behaviour and heavier than average litter levels in Princess Diana Park and Hillview Park and that fly-tipping in Banbury also affects some streets and footpaths such as on the Ironstones' paths.[29]

Planned expansion

Neithrop in December 2010. Three of the images are of the farm land behind Dover Avenue and Edinbourgh Way that was slated for a new housing estate between 2006 and 2010.

A plan existed in the late 2000s to expand the Bretchill estate west, into the local farmland,[39][40][41][42] but this has now been suspended due to the credit crunch and local hostility to the plan, like the southern expansion towards Bodicote.[39][40][41][42][43]

In February 2006

upmarket housing in the Hanwell fields area.[43]

Trinity Close and Powys Grove

History

Main article:
History of Banbury, Oxfordshire

Whilst they are officially part of the Bretch Hill estate, they were originally created as separate entities in the late 1960s to early 1970s and mid-1970s to early 1980s respectively. Trinity Close was mostly built between 1973 and 1975. Powys Grove is near the Barley Mow Pub and Trinity Close is opposite the

cul-de-sac
not reached the main road near the Drayton School or have had Appelby and Penrith Closes added to it, if the long planned Banbury by-pass had gone ahead in the early to mid-1980s. Since then there has been much redevelopment work done, with the demolition of the old lock-up garages between Appleby Close and Edinburgh Close making way for a car park and a small housing development.

Major local amenities

There is the Barley Mow Pub which was built in its present form in 1981 replacing the M&B old pub that stood on the road side and was run by "Nelly?" until her retirement.

Schools

There are none. Most pupils go to either

William Morris School or the North Oxfordshire Academy
, the latter being built in the 1970s.

Recreational areas and parks

Transport

A former Cheney Coaches bus, a Heyfordian bus, a Stagecoach bus and a Banburyshire Community Transport Association (BCTA) bus in Banbury. The Stagecoach buses ran every 15 minutes on weekdays and every 20 minutes at weekends as of 2008 and the Heyfordian bus runs every 30 minutes, except on Sundays as of 2009.

The local bus services in Banbury town centre radiate out to the various estates. Those to Bretch Hill, Woodgreen, and

Banbury Cross
. It is also sometimes a problem in Orchard Way and outside the Admiral Holland pub.

Local politics

The Neithrop ward is traditionally a

Hardwick estate
only.

See also

  • History of Banbury, Oxfordshire

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