About Olney - WelcomeOlney Online is an information, events & features service all about Olney. Use it to find local businesses or for the best days out. This site was created for people living in Olney, Buckinghamshire, by Olney residents. www.olneyonline.com is updated regularly. Use Olney Online to find out about Olney History: "From Roman times, through to Saxon times, mentions in the Domesday Book and The Battle of Olney in 1643... Olney really is an historic town. Lace making, along with shoemaking had its part to play in Olney's history in the 18th and 19th Century. Then, Olney was a poor community hit by outbreaks of cholera and smallpox. Olney now is famous for the pancake race established many hundreds of years ago, and for its connections to the slave trader turned abolitionist John Newton who is celebrated in Olney's musuem along with the poet William Cowper." Olney Online has information about sports and activities in and around Olney - from fishing on the River Great Ouse either in Olney or the villages nearby, or the recreation on offer at Emberton Park, and the great walking and cycling in Olney and the wider area. We have details of the Three Shires Way, a bridleway running through the quiet rural landscape of Bucks, Beds and Northants and Olney. And not far from Olney, Salcey Forest gives you an escape along lovely forest walkways. Want to find a sports club, local society or organisation in Olney? Then we aim to have them all listed here, with contacts we try our best to keep up-to-date. And within an easy drive of Olney and the surrounding villages like Lavendon, Emberton, Clifton Reynes, Weston Underwood, Ravenstone and Turvey you will find out about the windsurfing, horse riding, golf & swimming in the Bedford, Northampton, Milton Keynes triangle.
Olney Online also has a full (but also regularly added to) list of businesses here - from accommodation and accountants in Olney to vets and plenty in between. We aim to be the definative business site for Olney and the surrounding villages. Then there are the dedicated pages for the Olney shops, cafes, restaurants and pubs so that you can find out what is on offer in Olney and when... who opens at 10am, who stays closed on Sundays. But perhaps the most appreciated section on Olney Online is the events highlights calendar on the homepage and the full calendar in the events section. Find out not just what is going on in Olney, but interesting things happening in Lavendon, Emberton, Clifton Reynes, Weston Underwood, Ravenstone and Turvey as well as further afield for notable events in the parks, towns and stately homes that are within driving distance Olney. That includes all the information you need for the world famous Olney Pancake Race which this year - 2010 - will be on February 16th from Olney Market Place starting at 10.30am, with the main race at 11.55 am. Click here for all the information. And thanks to the feedback from Olney residents we know that Olney needed a site that is up-to-date, easy to navigate and that offers the contacts and information often not available on the web. To contact us at Olney Online simply email olneyonline@googlemail.com |
