The Oxfordshire Museum
Rural collections
The rural collections include all aspects of rural occupations in the countryside.
Our collections feature objects connected with the following:
Farming activities
- field draining
- ploughing
- cultivating
- harvesting
- weed and pest control
- farm machinery
Livestock
- dairy cattle
- milk
- butter and cheese-making
- beef cattle
- sheep
- wool
- pigs
- pig-killing
- horses
- harness for horse-power
- bees and bee-keeping
Rural industries include
- country crafts and craftspeople and their tools
- the blacksmith
- the harness-maker
- saddler
- leather-workers
- woodland craftsmen like the hurdle-maker
- chair leg
- tent-maker
- ladder-maker
- wood turner
- thatch spar maker
Building crafts
- thatching
- brick-making
- slate-making
- stonewall building
- the wheelwright
- the wagon maker
- makers of farm implements and machinery
Heritage search
Use our Heritage Search to explore our online collections of historical photographs, documents and objects.
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