Witney Heritage Open Days 2016 – Heritage Treasure Trail
1. A Scheduled Ancient Monument, it appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 and was occupied by Mr
Wadard before Mr Blake
2. Dedicated in 1485 it points to the sky and has a Long Bow practice range in front
3. The Chaps who work here have a boss – it’s where he lived (A house flatter than its name suggests)
4. Witney is full of ‘names’ and this one goes back to 1660 and has a link to Oriel College (he wasn’t just a
Green Grocer)
5. The cooks would have gone here to buy Eggs and other dairy products.
6. Built in 1850, John Wesley paid a visit
7. Make your way across town to Marriott’s Walk – find Witney Yarn Mosaic
8. Where might you go to find other Historic Items relating to Witney
9. In this place is a working piece of heritage – a blue plaque marks its original place of work
10. There is another Blue Plaque (in a place thinner and less flat than the picture)
11. Close by another church and a green made of trees, across the road with the arch is where the Quakers
once met
12. Our 3rd Blue Plaque lives in the street where the architect Thomas Wyatt designed the infrastructure (it’s
not his plaque though)
13. Where would the 3rd Blue Plaque man, and all his fellows, have taken their work to be checked and
authenticated?