Witney campus

The town

Witney is a market town on the edge of the Cotswolds, half an hour to the west of Oxford and whose history dates back to before the Norman Conquest.

The town's prosperity was based on the wool trade and in particular in the manufacture of blankets, for which the town became famous. By 1800 there were five woollen mills active in and around the town. The Blanket Weavers Hall was built in 1721 and every blankets made in and around Witney had to be taken there to be measured and weighed to ensure the high quality of Witney blankets was maintained. In the 1950s Witney became a centre of light engineering, ensuring that local employment in the town was not entirely dependent on the woollen industry.

The campus

The College campus occupies a site behind the High Street in the centre of Witney. The campus, although somewhat smaller than the Abingdon site, still offers a wide range of subjects from accountancy, business, art, information technology, A Levels to equine studies, engineering, childcare, social & health care and beauty.

Well-equipped classrooms complement specialist rooms and since the merger with Abingdon College in April 2001 certain areas have expanded, for example, the number of IT classrooms. New specialist rooms include two beauty salons, music technology studio and IT laboratories.

There is no parking on site but free parking available at Marriotts Close. Click here for details.

Work is underway to redevelop  the Witney Campus during the next few years, to continue to meet the education and training needs of the growing population of West Oxfordshire.