page_title: History of Banbury
section_title: Before 1639
hierarchical_section_title: History of Banbury / Industry and commerce / Before 1639
caption_attribution_description: English: I took the picture of these Mitsubishi and LG Electronics Air conditioning unit my self at a Banbury shopping mall in the year 2010. I here by release it in to the public domain.
context_page_description: Banbury is a circa 1,500-year-old market town and civil parish on the River Cherwell in the Cherwell District of Oxfordshire, England. It is 64 miles northwest of London, 38 miles southeast of Birmingham, 27 miles south of Coventry and 21 miles north northwest of the county town of Oxford.
context_section_description: The Domesday Book in 1086 listed 3 mills, with a total fiscal value of 45 shillings, on the Bishop of Lincoln's demesne lands, and a fourth which was leased to Robert son of Waukelin by the Bishop. Among Banbury's four Medieval mills was probably a forerunner of Banbury Mill, first referred to by this name in 1695. In the year 1279, Laurence of Hardwick was also paying 3 marks (equivalent to 40 shillings) in annual rent to the Bishop for a mill in the then Hardwick hamlet.
  The fore-runners of Butchers Row were probably long standing butchers' stalls which were known to be in situ by 1438.
caption: A modern air conditioning unit perched over the doorway in a late Victorian shop building in the town's centre. The town centre is still the home to many small shops and business to this day. The building were upgraded and airconditioned over the intervening years.
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