Handwritten notes by Hilda Kent, about the history of her home Cromwell House and the Old Forge. The tenants and owners from 1660's,, included Ann Waring Jane Coxeter John Fox John Jorden Messrs Orpwood and Smith Mrs Sammons Richard Coxeter Richard Sunderlands Thomas Sammons William Stamp
Views around Bampton supplied by Andrew Hilditch taken in 1988 showing Aston Road, Broad Street, Mercury Close, Cheapside Church Street., Bushey Road, Pococks Close
This house for sale is behind Cromwell House and Exeter House in Cheapside. It was built on the site of the garages and workshops that were part of the garage that went with the shop that is now the private dwelling called Exeter House.
The garage in the Market Square was in existence at the start of the C20th when Oliver Onesipherous Collett owned and ran it. Around the middle of the twentieth century it was bought by Len Hughes
Cromwell House is in Cheapside between Exeter House and The Old Forge. Hilda Kent lived there along with Margaret Howse after WWII until their deaths. Hilda did some research on the house and her notes are included in the pdf.