Cogges Manor Farm Museum at Witney, Oxfordshire is a working museum that depicts Oxfordshire rural life in Victorian times. It is set in an historic Manor house and Cotswold stone farm buildings. The animals also are representative of the traditional breeds of farm animals, including cows, sheep, pigs and chickens. The displays of farm implements and machinery and the regular demonstrations of farm work such as handmilking and buttermaking help bring the displays to life. Visitors can converse with the dairy maids, farm staff and house staff, who are traditionally dressed and going about the daily duties of that era. The history of the house, parts of which are more than 700 years old, is on show upstairs. In the activities room, children can try on Victorian clothes and play with replica toys and games of the period.

Regular activities include demonstrations of handmilking, feeding the pigs, buttermaking (on most Sunday afternoons) and the work of the Victorian maids in the Manor House.

Location: Cogges Manor Farm Museum, Witney, Oxon Grid Reference: SP362096 Ceremonial County: Oxfordshire Map Link: multimap streetmap Aerial photo: Getting there: Access: Cogges Manor Farm Museum can be found on Church Lane, Witney (pedestrians, take the lane to the left hand side of the Windrush Leisure Centre). Website:  own    Images Other Useful Websites: wiki    Local site Email: Address: Cogges Manor Farm Museum, Church Lane, Witney, Oxfordshire Postcode: OX28 3LA Telephone: 01993 772602 Opening Times: end March to early November 10:30am-5pm Tue to Fridays, Sat, Sun and Bank Holiday Mondays 11am-5pm, CLOSED MOST MONDAYS. See their website for more information on opening times, events etc. Charges: Adults £6.50, Children (3-16) £2.50, concessions £5, Under 3 free, Family 2+2 £15 Nearby Locations: Other Location Pages: Living History Section List of Living History Museums Living history museums introduction Notes:   CIN Page Ref: cogges_manor Classification: Living History Date Updated: 07/2008

This page is a Quick Guide, the idea of Quick Guides is to allow very basic information and linking forward information to be added to the system rather than having to wait until a full location guide has been developed. It should therefore be considered a development stage rather than a finished objective. Once more information is known the objective is to create either a Location or Featured Location page which has two grids and far more information.

Please let us know any other information that we can add to the Further information and Planning Grids or page and any errors that you discover. Before making a long trip to any location it is always wise to double check the current information, websites like magazines may be correct at the time the information is written, but things change and it is of course impossible to double check all entries on a regular basis. If you have any good photographs that you feel would improve the illustration of this page then please let us have copies. In referring to this page it is helpful if you quote the CIN Page Ref at the bottom of the Planning Grid above. To print the planning grid select it then right click and print the selected area.

Please submit information on locations you discover so that this system continues to grow.