Easington, Cherwell
Not to be confused with Easington, South Oxfordshire.
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History
Easington is a ward and former Mediaeval village in the south-west of the market town of Banbury.
General information
It has a public house called The Easington[1] and numerous local amenities including a sports field. The Timms estate [2][3] and Poets' Corner estates[4] are also part of the ward which contains many new-style[clarification needed] homes. The A361 and A4260 roads pass adjacent to the estate. The estate was built in the 1930s and 1940s as local industry began to grow, with a large expansion in the early 1960s, due to London overspill. The Timms Estate and Poets' Corner were built in the late 1950s and early 1960s respectively. Poets' Corner actually covers the site of an old sporting rifle range, which went out of use when the army left just after the Second World War.
The people living there are generally more upper class in orientation, higher up on the social ladder and tend to have managerial rather than manual or retail jobs.[citation needed] The estate has only a few recent overseas immigrants, most of which are either Poles or Czechs. The other estates tend to slant towards South Asians, South Africans, Brazilians and Irish.[citation needed]
Local politics
Easington ward is customarily Conservative and stayed Conservative during the 2006 local elections for Cherwell District Council, but the ward had changed to one Labour councillor and one Conservative Party councillor in the previous election of 2002. The Green party candidate lost in 2006.
The Conservatives still hold Easington ward for the Banbury Town Council and Oxfordshire County Council.
The Liberal Democrats and UKIP fielded no candidates in the ward during 2006. A lone Liberal Democrat stood in the Hardwick estate only.[clarification needed]
Schools
Two of Banbury's biggest secondary schools and one primary school are in Easington:
- Banbury School
- Blessed George Napier Roman Catholic School and Sports College, Banbury
- Harriers Ground Primary School
Recreational areas
- Easington Recreation Ground
Transport
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The local bus services to Banbury town centre via Calthorpe and the Timms estate are run by the Stagecoach Oxfordshire bus company. Hayfordian busses also run a limited service on weekdays to the Timms estate and on weekdays and Saturdays to Poets' Corner via Bretch hill.
References
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