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sitated some internal reorganisation, incluaing
the complete doubling-up of the punched
feature card cross-index system.
A valuable supplement to the Record has
been the deposition with the Museum of the
4,000' vertical air photograph cover of the
whole of the old Oxfordshire N of Wallingford
taken for Oxfordshire County Council by Fairey
Air Survey during May-August 1961. This has
yet to be examined systematically, but already
new sites have been coming to light. A
further major addition has been the Ordnance
Survey records for the Vale of the White
Horse, formerly N Berkshire, which are being
integrated into the Record.
Branch Museums The Museum of Oxford, sited in
the old City Library in St. Aldate's will be
opening to the public in December 1975. Its
permanent display will tell the story of the
City of Oxford from earliest times to the
present day, while frequent temporary exhibitions,
lectures and demonstrations are also
projected.
The Department of Museum Services also
now manages and assists in the running of the
Museumqat Banbury, Wantage and Abingdon, in
partnership with Cherwell District Council,
Wantage Town Council and Abingdon Town Council.
Enquiries addressed to the Record currently
average c.30-40 per week. The overhauling
of difficult areas and the revision of some
of the earlier sections, compiled originally
when the techniques were less precise than
those now in use, continues.
Planning Aspects In consultation with the
Oxfordshire Archaeological Unit, the Department
continues to be involved in various
aspects of planning liaison. Information on
the historic content of the environment has
been supplied to both County and District
Planning Departments in connection with local
plans, conservation areas, mineral extraction
and road schemes: The compiling of development
control maps presenting the archaeological
and historic landscape constraints
for District planning authorities is now substantially
complete, and it is honed to bring
them fully into use very shortly.
Museum Study Grollp The Museum, Study Group
has continued tc meet on Tuesday evenings,
.and it is,hoped to publish Mr. Keith Lawrence's
surveys of milestones, tollhouses and
turnpike roads in the forM of Information
Sheets early in 1976. Similar publications
resulting from the work of other members of
the GroUp'should follow in due course.
Oxfordshire Field-Names Survey The Oxfordshire
Federation of Women's Institutes have
continued to collect information on fieldnames
in OXfordshire from both local enquiry
and documentary sources. Work has been cm,
pleted during the year in Cassington, N Aston,
Duns Tew, Over Worton,SandfOrd St. Yartin
and WestOot Barton, and is.well advanced in
several other parishes. The completed surveys
are being incorporated into the COunty Sites
& Monuments Record by means of transparent
overlays to the Record Maps.