Let's Stitch Together - 1000 years of Cogges Witney
Join in and tell the amazing history and 1000 years of stories of Cogges and Witney in one giant Tapestry. Our Cogges Volunteer Craft Team will be sewing a series of fabric panels designed by children, families, schools and organisations that tell the wonderful stories from the past to the present, and displayed at Cogges! Visitors of all ages can take part if you are visiting Cogges (when we are allowed to safely open) or you can join in online from home ... find out how below.
Wadard was the first owner of Cogges and is shown as a Norman knight riding a horse on the Bayeux Tapestry (above). His Cogges Castle was next to the river where our timber adventure play fort is now. Cogges had some fascinating owners, including Kings of England, Oxford University founders and London merchant William Blake who founded the Buttercross and a local school. It was a Victorian working farm, it survived two World Wars, and the last known owners were the Mawle Family, who lived there as recently as the 1970s- their photos still hang in the house now.
Cogges history goes hand-in-hand with the development of Witney and West Oxfordshire, from wool factories and mills to farming, Cotswold sheep and the world famous Witney Blanket, as seen on Native American costumes in all the old cowboy movies! Find out more about these amazing stories here.
You can post your panel design to us at: Cogges Manor Farm, Church Lane, Witney or scan /photo (high res) and email it to Laura at: learning@cogges.org.uk
Don't forget to share a photo of your design on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @CoggesWitney #CoggesTapestry #StitchTogether
