The Horton General Hospital is an NHS hospital located on the Oxford Road in Calthorpe. The hospital has 236 beds and was founded in 1872 by Mary-Ann Horton. There is a 1980s mobile phone mast on the north part of the hospital.

The Italianate Elms House on Oxford Road, which lies within the grounds of the Horton Hospital, is a substantial villa built in 1863 for Jonathan Gillet, one of the senior partners of Gillet's Bank, and is now the offices of the Primary Care Trust.

In 2005, there were rumours that the hospital might be closed, leading Banbury's MP, Tony Baldry, and a large proportion of the town's population to start a campaign to keep the hospital open. These rumours proved to be unfounded, since the plans had already been abandoned by both the NHS Trust and the Health Minister.

In April 2006, the hospital came into the limelight when one of its nurses, Benjamin Geen, was convicted of two murders and fifteen counts of grievous bodily harm. During December 2003 and January 2004, he had poisoned patients because he got a thrill out of trying to resuscitate them.

The local bus services to Banbury town centre via Easington and the Timms estate are run by the Stagecoach Oxfordshire bus company. Heyfordian buses also run a limited service on weekdays to the Timms estate.

The Tramway estate and Canalside estate are built mostly on land formerly owned by the Britannia Works. The Tramway estate is named after the industrial tramway that ran between factories on Windsor Street, Upper Windsor Street, Canal Street, Tramway Street, and the plant next to Banbury station and the station's corporate freight siding between around 1881 and 1935. The estate is now home to many businesses. Several worker's flats were built, along with an allotment ground on the land that is now under the Morrisons supermarket. Some of the abandoned workshops are being demolished, and a few small flats and offices will replace them.

Before the arrival of James Brindley's Oxford Canal in 1779, the Canalside area comprised an undeveloped low-lying watermeadow. The canal was then extended to Oxford by Banbury engineer John Barnes in 1790. Both Parker's Wharf and Bridge Wharf were served by 'fly-boats' to many distant destinations, and by market boats to Oxford and Coventry. The canal brought much prosperity and growth to Banbury over the years and is still popular with boat users today.

Later, the Canalside area began to develop to become a centre of Banbury's agricultural, transport, and electrical engineering industry at about the same time as the arrival of the railways in 1850. Mr Samuelson's Britannia Works and Barrow & Carmichael's Cherwell Ironworks were built close together at the southern end of the area. The historic background to Banbury's industry began with a few grain merchants' mills and weavers' looms under the Normans. This continued in some form until the last tweed factory closed in the 1920s, despite new industries like the nearby lime kiln and cabinet manufacture works, Neithrop's timber yard or Grimsbury's clay pit and clay kilns.

The industrial metal works in Canalside were by far the town's largest employers throughout the second half of the 19th century. Their sales of agricultural equipment and industrial steam engines were international. The firms were housed in large regular single-storey 'ranges' (a type of industrial building) and later in proper warehouses. Laid out to the same regular grid as the contemporary residential development on the small 'Newlands' workers' estate, they formed a complete and self-contained industrial suburb on the edge of the town. Everything was said to be well planned. Some of the ranges still exist (as of 2011). A few of the later warehouses also survive, such as the Stagecoach bus depot.

The once thriving and prosperous Canal and Tramway estate areas of Banbury declined during the first half of the 20th century owing to industrial competition from bigger and better factories elsewhere, resulting in widespread demolition in the 1960s and 1970s. The former estate was allocated for industrial development and the area was dominated by a mixture of unattractive and run-down sheds and workshops. It had soon spread to cover the once agriculturally vital water meadows. The Tramway estate was in decline and the Canalside estate was a mess, until the implementation of redevelopment plans in 1999–2001.

With the arrival of the M40 motorway and the further growth of the town eastwards, the industrial area was inconveniently placed. Its decline was hastened in the 1990s by its isolation behind a now often criticised and regretted inner relief road, which cut it off from the town centre and isolated the town from its railway station.

There are bus stops at various locations.

Cherwell Heights is a housing estate in Banbury which was built on open fields during the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is a relatively large estate, with many open areas and parks. The A4260 (Oxford Road) runs adjacent to the estate.

A plan existed in the late 2000s (decade) to expand the Bretchill estate westwards into local farmland, but this has now been suspended owing to the credit crunch and local hostility to the plan, as has the southern expansion towards Bodicote.

The Hanwell Fields Estate was built in the north during 2008 and 2009. It was intended to provide affordable social housing to the west and south of Banbury, and more upmarket housing in the Hanwell fields area.

There are two primary schools in Cherwell Heights:

• Grange Primary School
• St John's Roman Catholic Primary School

• The Chatsworth Drive Play Park.
• The St Louis Meadow Park is a large park in the Cherwell Heights ward. It includes a play park with swings, a slide and many climbing obstacles, and a large open grass area with a hill. St Louis Meadow park area was set for an £80,000 refurbishment on 3 September 2010. A plastic play tunnel, some low wooden fencing, wood chippings, 2 cargo nets, a spring rider and a wooden climbing frame were added.
• The Bankside Park is another large park in the ward. It includes a tennis court, netball ground, a small football pitch and several benches. There are many old trees in the park and it is one of the few that are not built on a hill.

At about 10.15 p.m. on 9 February 2011, fire fighters were called to the play area in St Louis Meadow park, after a member of public reported a fire inside the play area. A plastic tunnel had been deliberately burnt by local youths. Repairs to the park will cost £85,000.

A similar incident in the Spiceball Park caused heavy damage on 8 February 2007, but did not deter the council from proceeding with a planned £90,000 refurbishment. In 2006, the burning of two spring riders lead to the closure of the Woodgreen Arcade play park.

There were some concerns over antisocial 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.

The local bus services to Banbury town the centre via Easington and the Timms estate are run by the Stagecoach Oxfordshire bus company. Heyfordian buses also run a limited service on weekdays to the Timms estate.

Over the past few years there have been plans to build a new estate on the undeveloped College Fields adjoining both Bodicote and the Cherwell Heights housing estate of Banbury. In February 2006 Cherwell District Council voted to approve the plans despite a 20,000-signature petition against it. About 1,070 houses will be built in the estate, which will include shops, a public house, a church, a restaurant, a school and other local services.

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  Calthorpe, Banbury in 2002.
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  Calthorpe houses near the Banbury Morrison's store. Judging by the type of housing stock, the red and white houses were erected in the late 1940s.
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  The Colage Fields Banbury in 2011. There is speculation as to whether any homes will be built on this site.
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  Sainsbury's supermarket in Banbury during 2000. It was enlarged in 2009-2010.
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  The Sainsbury's store in Banbury, during late 2010. It was heavily expanded in late 2009 to mid-2010.

• History of Banbury, Oxfordshire
• Baron Calthorpe
• Bodicote

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