Headington Civil Parish Council
From:
Stephanie Jenkins
Date:
Aug 31 20:33 UTC
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Just to put the history straight:
Headington Parish Council was still going strong in 1927, with fifteen local
worthies as its members. At that time the three Headington villages were not
part of the city of Oxford.
In 1927 Headington Urban District Council (UDC) was formed at the request of
the parish council, and replaced it. This had eighteen members (nine members
for Old Headington & Quarry Ward, and nine for Highfield Ward -- many of them
the same people who had been on the parish council). It met fortnightly at the
Workhouse on the London Road.
In 1928/9 Headington (1,529 acres) was incorporated into the City of Oxford
along with Cowley. Once it was a suburb of Oxford, it lost its sovereignty and
came under the control of the City Council.
So Headington UDC was very short-lived: it was founded in 1927 and dissolved in
August 1929.
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