Blanket Hall

Oxfordshire


A fine testament to Witney’s wool-trade prosperity, the baroque Blanket Hall, built in 1721 to host the Witney Company of Blanket Weavers, dominates the genteel High St. It now holds a shop that sells a happy combination of blankets, pies and coffee, so it’s easy to wander in and take a look around.


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