This is your opportunity to talk about "Visit Witney"... Why visitors should come to our town, what's nice about Witney and what is not, what could be done to improve the town for visitors and give them an even better experience, the ways that residents might benefit (or for that matter not benefit), how Witney compares with other similar towns... The floor is entirely yours!
We have deliberately not started with lots of photographs and descriptions of the best-known Witney sites and sights, because we do not wish to lead the conversation... but wish the direction to come from you. So you are very welcome to add any and all photographs etc to your posts to help make your points, and we will build galleries to illustrate how we all see Witney as the conversation develops.
To help keep things as easy to follow as possible, we have set out some 'categories', and invite your posts, and comments on those posts, exactly as you please.
And now, over to you... Please log in and kick off!
An historical aside: Before we set up Cotswold Woollen Weavers in Filkins in 1982, we talked to Earlys about having the older part of their mill as a weaving centre, because they were on the rebound from Madame Tussauds deciding not to take the mill for a visitor centre. Their reason was that they did not think they could get to 350,000 visitors a year quickly enough. There was a very interesting report written at the time about 'Witney blanket tourism'.
So far as Witney blankets, weaving today, and visitor attraction is concerned... Yes, I think it is possible... Something to think about for sure.