ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Oxfordshire County Museums Service Oxfordshire objects set against detailed information about provenance

Alison Petch,
Researcher 'The Other Within' project

 

'Top 20' Oxfordshire villages from which OXCMS social history objects derive

 

 

Name of town or village

Number of objects

% of overall PRM Oxon collections [39,183]

Size of population 2001

% of overall Oxon population 2001 [605,492]

Size of population 1901

% of overall Oxon population 1901 [236,170]

1

Oxford

5,257

13

134,200

22

57,399

24

2

Banbury

2,491

6

43,867

7

3,394

1

3

Wantage

1,960

5

9,767

2

3,766

2

4

Abingdon

1,733

4

31,300

5

17,325

7

5

Witney

1,066

3

22,765

4

3,574

2

6

Lower Heyford

815

2

484

0

494

0

7

Woodstock

656

2

2,924

0

1,962

1

8

Chipping Norton

557

1

5,972

1

16,004

7

9

Shutford

400

1

461

0

n/a

-

10

Shipton-under-Wychwood

317

1

1,280

0

672

0

11

Enstone

279

1

1,103

0

925

0

12

Adderbury

262

1

2,496

0

n/a

-

13

Deddington

252

1

2,123

0

1,490

1

14

Steeple Aston

242

1

920

0

619

0

15

Swyncombe

233

1

260

0

342

0

16

Shilton

194

0

553

0

234

0

17

Chadlington

193

0

828

0

n/a

-

18

Standlake

182

0

1,295

0

524

0

19

Stoke Lyne

159

0

232

0

409

0

20

Lockinge

151

0

179

0

303

0

NB Percentages are rounded up or down to nearest whole figure

n/a = not available