The Towns
Banbury, Woodstock, Chipping Norton, Deddington and the villages between.
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Plate I·1Banbury: The Square Has Always Traded
A market town whose square has traded since the Middle Ages — the stalls move, the trade continues. The layout of the town, the crosses, the cake, and the industry that followed the canal and the railway in.
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Plate I·2Woodstock, and the Gate It Grew Beside
The town outside the park wall: how a settlement shaped by a royal manor and later a ducal estate differs from a market town that grew on its own trade.
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Plate I·3Chipping Norton Was Built on Wool
The highest town in Oxfordshire, its wool wealth, the church that wealth paid for, and the later tweed mill that changed the town's shape again.
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Plate I·4Deddington and the Castle That Went
Earthworks where a castle stood, a market square that outlived the market's importance, and what a town looks like when its reason for existing is removed.
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Plate I·5The Villages Between
Bloxham, Adderbury, Cropredy and the rest — why the villages of this district look like one another, and what the differences signal.