Hello Barry I found this reference to Cobbs Bank, any help? 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. (fn. 141) Another 50 houses were built between 1852 and 1881 along the borough's northern boundary, when Back Lane was converted into Castle Street West, and Castle Street East was laid out. (fn. 142) The town's principal expansion in the mid 19th century was to the east. In the area known as Cherwell between Broad Street and the canal, lying partly within and partly outside the borough, development began along the canal; Upper and Lower Cherwell Streets and Windsor Street had been built before 1851, (fn. 143) and there followed building between Windsor Street and Broad Street so that by 1881 there were some 350 modern houses in the whole area. (fn. 144) A slightly later development still further east in Grimsbury was of larger houses. There had been some suburban development there by the early 19th century. 'A lot of cottages called Waterloo' which apparently lay just east of Banbury Bridge to the north of the road, housed 'a lot of disreputable inhabitants, lodginghouses and otherwise, of the lowest character'. (fn. 145) In 1841 Waterloo was described as 'the modern and most populous part of Grimsbury'. (fn. 146) The principal 19th-century building development within Grimsbury occurred between 1852 and 1881, when some 500 houses were built, partly south of the Middleton road in Causeway, Merton Street, and Duke Street, but mostly to the north between the Middleton road and North Street. (fn. 147) *When meadows and a race-course at Grimsbury were sold to the Great Western Railway, the same owner sold his land to the north of the Middleton road to the Banbury Freehold Land Society, which was backed by Cobb's Bank; many of the early houses built were middle-class in character, but development was slow and some plots were never built upon. (fn. 148) * From: 'Banbury: Origins and growth of the town', A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 10: Banbury hundred (1972), pp. 18-28. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63789 Date accessed: 23 July 2009. Regards Mary 2009/7/23 <eng-banbury-area-request@rootsweb.com> > > > **************************************** > If you are going to reply to one of these digest messages, please quote > only the specific message to which you are replying, and remove the rest of > the digest. > Also, remember to change the subject of your reply so that it matches the > subject of the message to which you are replying. > ~ Thank you. > **************************************** > > Today's Topics: > > 1. The Bank, Neithrop (Barry Dunwoody) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:56:13 +1000 > From: Barry Dunwoody <barry.dunwoody@gmail.com> > Subject: [BAN] The Bank, Neithrop > To: ENG-BANBURY-AREA@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <56229b940907222056o3813102byf5773fde1b7bf4e9@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Does anyone know where the street called the Bank, Neithrop was in relation > to present day roads? > Any help would be appreciated. > Barry > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the ENG-BANBURY-AREA list administrator, send an email to > ENG-BANBURY-AREA-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the ENG-BANBURY-AREA mailing list, send an email to > ENG-BANBURY-AREA@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-BANBURY-AREA-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of ENG-BANBURY-AREA Digest, Vol 4, Issue 156 > ************************************************ >