The History Of Banbury:: Including Copious Historical And Antiquarian Notices Of The Neighbourhood - Softcover

Alfred Beesley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461296535 ISBN 13: 9780461296532

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

The History Of Banbury:: Including Copious Historical And Antiquarian Notices Of The Neighbourhood by Alfred Beesley offers a comprehensive, documentary-focused local history of Banbury and its surrounding Oxfordshire (with ancillary material from neighbouring areas). The work surveys Banbury’s deep history from pre-Roman and Romano-British periods through medieval and early modern times, emphasizing place-names, archaeology, trackways, forts, religious sites, and military events to establish Banbury’s long historical footprint. It combines archaeology, inscriptions, coins, and topographical evidence with a richly cross-referenced structure, including an Index of Persons, Places, and Subjects, as well as extensive addenda, corrigenda, and a plates-and-maps suite. Core themes center on Civil War era politics and religion in Banbury, local governance and urban history (charters, markets, by-laws, taxation, courts), ecclesiastical history (new church openings and chapels), and the interplay of religion and dissent (notably Quakers) within the town. The volume also covers antiquities, botany, and numismatic tokens, with documentary evidence and place-name genealogies at the fore. A reproduced 1655 letter from Captain Thomas Curtis to Samuel Wells, addenda on Tradesmen’s Tokens, inscriptions, church history notes, and botanical observations anchor its scholarly apparatus. Overall, it is designed as a reference work for researchers of Banbury’s local history and its broader Civil War and dissent context.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461296535
• ISBN 13: 9780461296532
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 760