[clarification needed] In 1875 payments were made only by Williamscot, Swalcliffe, Prescote, Great and Little Bourton, Neithrop, Claydon, and Shutford since the rest were freed from their rent obligations.

[4] The Bishop of Lincoln's vast Banbury estate, except for Neithrop and Calthorpe, was sold to the Duke of Somerset in 1547, but by 1550 he granted it (except for Hardwick) to John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, then the Duke of Northumberland shortly afterwards, who in 1551 granted it to the Crown in exchange for other lands.

In the early 17th century the Copes granted the freehold of much of their Neithrop land to their tenants and lessees, such as the Parnells, in an act of great generosity for this time.

[6] Further expansion in Neithrop occurred after 1850; thus St. Paul's Terrace and the houses on the west side of Paradise Road were among several small terraces that had been built in Neithrop village before 1881, besides some 50 houses in the newly laid out Park Road and Queen Street.

[1] Banbury town council built the houses in King's Road and on the Easington estate at the time.

[4][10] Neithrop used to be the site of Banbury's mid Victorian workhouse and later contagious diseases hospital,which was situated in Warwick Road for about 100 years.

[14] A major furniture shop, police station and a Texaco garage are located in the ward.

[18][19][20] The much frequented outdoor pool is closed from September to March due to the bad seasonal weather.

The pub was named after Vice-Admiral Lancelot Holland,[24] who was in command of the British naval forces during the Battle of Denmark Strait in May 1941 against the German battleship Bismarck.

The park gets its name from the fact that the slide, monkey bars and climbing frame are all yellow.

[29] Woodgreen's 45-year-old[15][16] youth club was closed in April 2010, demolished during July 2010,[15][16] and its replacement was due to open in early 2011.

The estate was built in the 1960s because of the growth of the town due to the North London overspill and a slum clearance scheme in both Solihull and Coventry.

The now derelict Bretch Farm, near Claypits Close, opened in about 1900, was expanded slightly in 1910, lost a large part of its land to the Bretch hill development (the watertower and communications transmissions mast) in the 1960s, closed in 1990 and has been derelict ever since.

Trinity Close and Powys Grove were originally created as separate entities between the late 1960s and early 1980s.

There were many small, Victorian clay pits and kilns in the south west of Banbury, but they had closed by the 1920s.

The Bradley Arcade shopping centre was built circa 1965[30] and named after police inspector James Roy Bradley, who was deliberately run down and killed by wanted criminals at a local police road block in 1967.

[31][32] The Willy Freund Centre closed in 2004 due to a funding crisis and increasing teenage rowdiness.

[33][34] Bretch Hill is served by four schools: There were some concerns over anti-social behaviour and heavier than average litter levels in Princess Diana Park and Hillview Park and that fly-tipping in Banbury also affects some streets and footpaths such as on the Ironstones' paths.

[39][40][41][42][43] In February 2006 Cherwell District Council voted to proceed with the plans despite the popular opposition and local campaigning against it.

Powys Grove is near the Barley Mow Pub and Trinity Close is opposite the North Oxfordshire Academy school.

The Bretch Hill Road may have remained a long cul-de-sac not reached the main road near the Drayton School or have had Appelby and Penrith Closes added to it, if the long planned Banbury by-pass had gone ahead in the early to mid-1980s.

Those to Bretch Hill, Woodgreen, and Hardwick are run by the Stagecoach Oxfordshire bus company.

The Liberal Democrats, UKIP or British National Party fielded no candidate in the ward during 2006.