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Easington, Corner and the Timms estate are three interconnecting estates in the town of Banbury, Oxfordshire.


History


Easington proper

Easington is a ward and former
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village in the south-west of the
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of Banbury. Easington, which was a rural estate attached to the former Calthorpe Manor, was first mentioned in 1279. Its
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lands were subsequently leased out over the years. In 1505 the Easington estate was leased out for a
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fee for 15 years to Anne, the relict of the lord, Sir William Danvers and after her death in 1520 a new lease for 40 years was made to the local
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, William Pierson. Laurence Pierson was a farmer of Easington from 1540 to 1541 and by 1545 the lease had finally passed to John Crocker of
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; his son-in-law Edward Hawten used it for a rent. 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 afterward, who in 1551 granted it to the Crown in exchange for other lands. After 1551 the lordship of Easington seems to have remained with the Crown as no one took up the rent or apparently owned the letting rights. The Barber family were local landlords, who let out their Easington estate's lands. By 1728, the Berrymoor lands were leased along with the first Berrymoor Farm to the same owner. As of 1734, a large portion of the estate (including Easington Farm) was leased to a local man, and in 1787 the whole lease lands of the adjacent Farm field and several village closes were included in the deal from 1799 onwards. The Barber family's property in Easington was thus farmed as a whole by successive tenants until late
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times. The longstanding Easington Farm's buildings was extensively repaired and enlarged in 1793 by the then lease holder. Banbury town council built the houses in King's Road and on the Easington estate. Other working-class type houses were built at the south end of Britannia Road and the area to the east between 1881 and 1930. Houses were also built 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.
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maps from 1882, 1900 and 1922 show that the houses on Broughton Road are built over an old claypit called the ''Bear pit''. Berrymoor farm, whose last land lease was of mid-Victorian origin, had become a laundrette by 1922 and had lost two outhouses, but gained a small annex to the main building. The 1919 Housing Act was followed by the building of the Easington housing estate of 361 council houses in what was one of the first
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schemes in the country. By 1930 the medical officer reported 131 Banbury town centre houses unfit for habitation. Therefore, in 1933, Banbury council opened the Ruscote housing estate of 160 houses. The increased population between 1931 and 1949 was accommodated by the expansion of the town in three main areas, of which houses were built both by the town corporation and by private housebuilders. Most of the estate was built in the 1930s and 1940s as local industry began to grow, with a large expansion in the early 1960s, due to the London overspill. The land south of the Foscote Private Hospital in
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and Easington farm were mostly open farmland until the early 1960s. It had only a few farmsteads, the odd house, an allotment field (now under the Sainsbury's store), and the Municipal Borough of Banbury council's small reservoir. Berrymoor farm was finally demolished in 2004 and became St. Mary's View. Much of the farm land was used to build a children's day-care, an industrial storage facility, a small electrical substation, and a branch of De Montfort University (now a branch of the Oxford and Cherwell College) in the late 1960s.


The Timms and Poets Corner estates

Two minor streams once ran from a spring near the
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and the land under today's Timms estate. An old
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, kiln and brick works lay near the Corner estate. The pit was of mid-Victorian origin and the buildings were put up. The pit had been filled in by the 1920s, the buildings closed by the 1940s and the site built on by the late 1960s. The Timms estate and Corner estate were built in the late 1950s and early 1960s respectively. Corner actually covers the site of an old sporting rifle range, which went out of use when the army left just after the
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. The Timms estate and Poets' Corner estates are also part of the ward which contains many new-style homes. The
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and
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roads pass adjacent to the estate. The people living in the three estates are generally more upper class in orientation, higher up on the social ladder and tend to have professional or managerial rather than blue collar jobs. The Easington and Timms estate has only a few recent overseas immigrants, most of which are either Irish, Poles or Czechs. The Cherwell Heights and Corner estates tend to slant towards South Africans, Brazilians and Irish.


Local amenities

Easington has a
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called ''The Easington'', some convenience shops and numerous other local amenities including a sports field. The Timms estate has some parks and a shopping complex, while the Corner estate has a major park and a small convenience store.


Local politics

Easington ward is customarily Conservative and stayed Conservative during the 2006 local elections for
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, but the ward had changed to one
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councillor and one
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councillor in the previous election of 2002. The
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candidate lost in 2006. The Conservatives still hold Easington ward for the Banbury Town Council and
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. The Liberal Democrats and UKIP fielded no candidates in the ward during 2006. A lone Liberal Democrat stood in the
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only.


Schools

Two of Banbury's biggest secondary schools and one primary school are in Easington: *
Banbury School Wykham Park Academy is a coeducational academy school situated on Ruskin Road, in the Easington ward of Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. The school has a sixth form. Formerly Banbury School, it has been an academy since 2012, originally under the ...
*
Blessed George Napier Roman Catholic School Blessed George Napier Roman Catholic School, known locally as BGN, is a Roman Catholic secondary school and sixth form with Academy (English school), academy status. It is located on Addison Road in the Easington, Banbury, Oxfordshire, Easington ...
School website
/ref> * Harriers Ground Primary School *Queensway Primary School on Brantwood Rise Banbury School is a mixed, multi-heritage, fully
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with 1650 students (including
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) situated on Ruskin Road, in the Easington ward of Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. The school is a specialist Humanities College.


Sport and leisure

Easington has a
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team
Easington Sports F.C. Easington Sports Football Club is an amateur football club based in the Easington ward of Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. They are currently members of the and play at Addison Road. History The club was established in 1946 and initially played ...
who play at Addison Road.


Recreational areas and parks

*The Easington Recreation Ground is the estate's principal park and recreational area. *The Browning Road Park and the well-resourced Browning Road Children's Play Area are about the size of Easington Recreation Ground and is the main park and children's play area in Corner. It is rather prone to winter flooding since a
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and minor stream was poorly
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ed there in the early 1970s. *The Brantwood Rise Park is a small piece of parkland in the Corner estate. It is fenced in by residents' gardens' fences, save for the small lane running through it. It is merely approximately 25 ft x 12 ft. It has 1 bin, 5 trees and a bench. The kids' swing was removed in 2004, due to vandalism. There are also 2 minor play parks and one minor park, the biggest of these being on the Timms estate, by the local shopping complex.


Transport

The local bus services to Banbury town centre via Calthorpe and the Timms estate are run by the Stagecoach Oxfordshire bus company. Heyfordian Travel buses also run a limited service on weekdays to the Timms estate and on weekdays and Saturdays to Corner via
Bretch Hill Neithrop is an inner housing estate and part of the greater 'Neithrop ward' of Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. It is one of the oldest areas in Banbury, having first been first recorded as a hamlet in the 13th century. Neithrop, Woodgreen and Br ...
.


Gallery

File:Banbury2park in Easington.JPG, A park in Easington estate, Banbury, in 2001


See also

* History of Banbury, Oxfordshire *
Banburyshire Banbury is a historic market town on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, South East England. It had a population of 54,335 at the 2021 Census. Banbury is a significant commercial and retail centre for the surrounding area of north Oxfordshire ...


References

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