When complete this website will contain transcripts of all the wills and inventories for Burford for the period 1500 to 1700.
The buildings along Burford's main streets reflect the town's varied social character, which included gentry and professionals as well as shopkeepe
This site will soon contain all Burford wills and inventories for 1500-1699.
Above: Simon Wisdom's merchant's mark at 96 High Street (top left), with the date 1578
Like the Bay Tree Hotel two centuries later, the 18th-century Lamb Inn comprises an accumulation of several properties.
This site will soon contain all Burford wills and inventories for 1500-1699. There will be a glossary to help with obscure words.
This small early 14th-century house, though heavily remodelled, may be Burford's earliest surviving domestic building, and is documented from the 1
In the 19th century this long range comprised two pairs of cottages.
Several houses at Witney Street's north-west end (before the modern cul-de-sac of Sylvester Close) began as outbuildings for premises on High Stree
Externally there are few clues to the age and interest of this building.
