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Witney Blanket Hall
Heritage Open Day: Witney Blanket Hall was built in 1721 by the Company of Blanket Makers. For over 120 years, every blanket woven in the town came to the Hall to be weighed & measured, and upstairs in the Great Room the Company set the rules for the trade.
After 1845, the New Mills established their own measuring, and the redundant Blanket Hall became variously a brewery, lemonade factory, engineering shop, office of births marriages & deaths, dancing school, & latterly, a distinctive gentlema
Thu 7 Sep:1000-1700. Fri 8 Sep:1000-1700. Sat 9 Sep:1000-1700. Sun 10 Sep:1000-1700. Free Entry.
100 High Street, Witney, Oxfordshire OX28 6HL
Thu 7 Sep to Sun 10 Sep 2017
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