page_title: Grimsbury
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Grimsbury / History
caption_attribution_description: English: We took these picture of Banbury town our selves. It's improved no end, It's a lot better than before. The Irish pub was reduced in size and renovated, a house was built on part of the old pub, the public toilet was removed in favour of a 'green space' (a very small park) and the garage became a Londis shop. The demolitions were in 2004, the refurbishment and building work was in 2007 and the Londis shop opened in 2008. The year 2000 is on the left and the year 1999 is on the right. I, like the previouse, here by release it in to the public domain.
context_page_description: Grimsbury is a largely residential area forming the eastern part of Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. It is east of the River Cherwell, the Oxford Canal and the Cherwell Valley Line railway.
context_section_description: Grimsbury was first settled in the 6th century as a Saxon hamlet. and for centuries was a village separate from Banbury. The placename is a corruption of the Saxon name for a defended enclosure (burh) of a person called Grim. It is possible that the name was derived from a pseudonym for the pagan god Woden.
  Grimsbury currently includes the town's Royal Mail sorting offices, which were built over the former Banbury Merton Street railway station, Banbury railway station, Banbury United F.C.'s ground, and the Victoria Place apartment development.
  Local living conditions had improved greatly during the Victorian era with the removal of several poorly built cottages that were deemed to be only "hovels" and an end to the endemic "dwarfism" and rickets that had plagued the local children in the early 19th century. A slightly later development still further east in Grimsbury was of larger houses. A lot of cottages what was called 'Waterloo' (today's Waterloo Road), which apparently lay just east of Banbury Bridge to the north of the road, had transformed from the early 19th century so that by 1841 Waterloo was considered one of the better off parts of Grimsbury. Due to Banbury's then boom time Grimsbury's principle expansion occurred between 1852 and 1881, when some 500 houses were built, around Middleton road, Causeway, Merton Street, Duke Street, and North Street.
  When meadows and a by the recently discussed race-course at Grimsbury were sold to the Great Western Railway circa 1850, the owner also sold the other part of his land, north of the Middleton road to the Banbury Freehold Land Society, which was financially backed by Cobb's Bank, to build middle-class type houses on, but development was slow at the time and some plots were never built upon. The land in question and the location of today's Spice Ball Park are marked as "Liable to flooding" on the 1882, 1900, 1910 and 1922 Ordnance Survey maps.
  Duke Street, was located at the western edge of Wilkins' (now demolished) brick pit, was developed around 1870. There was a substantial 'brick, tile and drain works' with a short tramway in it to the east of Grimsbury in the versinaty of Howard Street according to the 1882, 1883 1900, 1910, 1922 1923 and 1947 Ordnance Survey maps. It had closed by 1923 and the last workshops had shut in 1955. It was mostly built on by 1965 according to the 1955 and 1965 O.S. maps.
  The Banbury Town Council built the houses in King's Road and on the Easington estate at the time and other working-class type houses were built at the south end of Britannia Road and the area to the east between 1881 and 1930, and also in both Old Grimsbury Road and Gibbs Road in Grimsbury, and more up-market houses were built in both the Marlborough Road area and in Bath Road, Kings Road, Park Road, and Queen Street in Neithrop. The mostly late 19th-century suburb of Grimsbury witnessed rapid growth between 1881 and 1930. About 300 more houses were built after 1945, in the areas of Grimsbury Square, Fergusson Road, Howard Street, School View, and Edward Street. To the north of Grimsbury Square is the 1945–55 area of "New Grimsbury" and south of it is the 1930 and earlier old town of "Old Grimsbury".
  Grimsbury, Old and New, were historically hamlets in Warkworth parish, Northamptonshire, but which were transferred in 1889 to the parish of Bodicote, Oxfordshire.
  A retail and residential development was built on the former site of the Bridge Motors Vauxhall dealership and garage and opened in 2010.
  The region has in recent decades been home to many Asian families and in recent years has been settled by many Eastern Europe immigrants.
  Grimsbury is on a floodplain and suffered severe floods in 1998 and 2007.
caption: Grimsbury in 1999 (right) and 2000 (left) prior to redevelopment from 2004 to 2008. The Irish pub was reduced in size and renovated, a house was built on part of the old pub, the public toilet was removed in favour of a green space (a small park) and the garage became a Londis shop. The demolitions were in 2004, the refurbishment and building work was in 2007 and the Londis shop opened in 2008.
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