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Thame is an ancient market town on the Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire border, 14 miles east of Oxford; it is situated beside and takes its name from the river Thame. The original settlement, centred around the church, was an important place by the late 7th century and New Thame and its market-place were added as a planned development from 1221. John Hampden, the Parliamentary leader, died in Thame in 1643 after being wounded at the Battle of Chalgrove Field.

Significant past trades have included wool-stapling, basket-making and chair-making but Thame is perhaps best known for its cattle market and for its inns. The town was run by an Urban District Council from 1894 to 1974 and is now part of South Oxfordshire District. The estimated population is 10,900, up from 4,171 in 1951.


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This CD-ROM is the result of a Millennium Festival award from the Heritage Lottery Fund to the Oxfordshire Local History Association. The award has funded the creation of Parish Packages of heritage information for six Oxfordshire communities. The project managed on a day to day basis by staff of Oxfordshire County Council, Cultural Services, explores new ways of looking at local history, giving access to a wide range of sources from both public and private collections. This CD-ROM has been produced in small quantities for use in Oxfordshire County Council libraries, museums and at relevant schools, parish councils, and local societies. The Parish Package project is entirely non profit-making. The CD-ROM is not available commercially.

The parishes selected for this project are:

CartertonCowleyEast and West ThameNeithrop (in Banbury)StandlakeThame

Each CD-ROM will typically include extracts from the following historical sources:

l Parish Registers l Photographs from County Collections, local groups & individualsl Original historical documentsl Listed building informationl Mapsl Newspapers l Publications – books, articles, periodicals, and pamphletsl Directories l Census returnsl Oral history tapesl Information from Local History Societies and individuals l Private collectionsl Museum objects

This is a broad and diverse range of historical sources but it only represents an introduction to the resources that are available for local history research. The CD-ROM includes a directory of sources for anyone who wants to study the parish in greater depth. For further advice or information please contact the Centre for Oxfordshire Studies (see Major Contributors section).


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Victoria County History

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This CD-ROM includes the Standlake entries from Kelly’s Oxfordshire directories published between 1847 and 1939. In the Centre for Oxfordshire Studies you can also see the following county directories that cover Standlake: Gardner, 1852; Lascelles, 1853; Billing, 1854; Dutton & Allen, 1863; Melville, 1867; Cassey, 1868; Mercer & Crocker, 1874; Harrods, 1876.


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Sheep market in progress in Cornmarket outside the Nag’s Head Inn. Thame.

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Quaker Meeting and Public HousesCedar Villa, Boxhedge, Neithrop, was the first home we had in Banbury. At the beginning of Boxhedge, before you came to Cedar Villa, was Birds Farm house. It was a beautiful sixteenth century stone house. Daniel Bird, the farmer, was a town councillor. He wore a derby hat, buff coloured knee length coat and gaiters. His wife had been a county hockey player and ran a hockey team of local ladies. She and Mrs Evers and several others used to hire a barrel organ dressup in gypsy costumes and go round collecting for town charities.round collecting tor town charities. They collected thousands of pounds.

Many of the houses in Neithrop and Boxhedge were dreadful places, many families having to share one outside toilet and one water tap. They had no comfort or conveniences at all. Most of the people were out of work and were very poor indeed. Many of the children went barefoot and when it was cold, they had to stay huddled for warmth in bed. They didn’t welcome strangers or people prying into their business. Many of the out of work men were demobbed soldiers who felt very bitter that nothing was being done for them and their families. I remember two ex-soldiers shooting themselves in despair at their hopeless situation.

We soon made friends with our neighbours, especially my grandmother, Mrs Ormiston Chant. My parents and grandmother were distressed at the poverty and suffering allaround us, but there was not much that they could do as they were quite poor themselves. However, they gave what sympathy and, help they could.

Cedar Villa was in a private road shut off from Boxhedge by an iron gate across the road. It had once been an old farm house and still had fields in front and a field at one side. The house was owned by Mr Colman, who had left his wife and daughter, sold his good class grocery business in Parsons Street and had become a recluse. His wife rented us the house furnished with all its wonderful antique furniture and pictures, for £3 a week. This was a lot of money in those days and was much more than my parents could afford, -but we had to live somewhere. We had no gas, or electricity, used oil lamps and candles for lighting and cooked on a coal-fired range. The roof leaked and when it rained, we had to put buckets and basins on the bedroom floors to catch the water.

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This CD-ROM contains a selection of printed maps of the Thame area from 1705 to the present day. You may find useful manuscript maps at Oxfordshire Archives and other printed maps, including Ordnance Survey sheets, at the Centre for Oxfordshire Studies. The dates of significant Ordnance Survey maps are as follows: 1811 (1st edition one-inch field survey); 1830 (1st edition one-inch); 1876, (1:500. 10.56 feet to 1 mile), 1899, 1921, 1973 (1:2500, 25-inch).

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