LOWER
HEYFORD PARISH COUNCIL:
20th
May 1895 The Council had evidently had a letter from Ploughley
Rural District Council about Dolly's Ditch. The Clerk was directed
to reply to the effect that Dolly's Ditch was a public drain and that
having been blocked with drift sand from the public road, it should
consequently be repaired by the Highway Board. (There is no subsequent
record of the outcome - does anyone know where Dolly's Ditch is or
was?)
22nd
August 1895 Correspondence had been received from the Rural District
Council, this time about pollution of the Oxford Canal. The Thames
Conservancy Board had reported that "all the soapy water and general
liquid refuse passes into the drains which discharge into the Canal.
There are also several houses which have individual drains emptying
into the Canal"; and the RDC was recommending that "settling tank
be erected for the purpose of receiving all the sewage and other liquid
matter from the Parish before it passes into any channel communicating
with any tributary of the Thames". (Again, there is no record of the
outcome.)
23rd
May 1896 A letter had been received from Upper Heyford Parish
Council enclosing a copy of its Resolution "as to the stile and watercourse
in Bromeswell". (This was apparently a complaint, and in view of the
wider readership of this publication, there should be no further comment!)
23rd
August 1896 "Mr J.S. Cheesman reported that portions of the footpath
to Upper Heyford had been repaired." (The land between Mill Lane and
the Upper Heyford boundary was formerly six fields, Harris' Close
(now King George's Field), Bromeswell, Manger's Field, First Moors
and Second Moors - Bromeswell and Manger's Field were separated by
a small stream.)
17th
May 1897 It was agreed that the annual Compensation (for loss
of land when the Canal was constructed in 1790) payment of £10.1.6
from the Oxford Canal Company. (Who was it paid to before? Today,
the annual payment of £10.07 is paid to the Parish Council by Corpus
Christi College, having been extracted from a total sum of £33.12
in respect of Lower Heyford paid to them by British Waterways.)
7th
December 1897 The resignation of the original Chairman, Rev. J.A.
Dodd, the Rector of Lower Heyford, was recorded due to his taking
a new post as a rector of South Hackney. His successor as rector,
Rev. Vivian R. Lennard, was also appointed to be his successor as
Chairman of Lower Heyford Parish Council.
R
Bowen, Clerk to Lower Heyford Parish Council
January 2001
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