 The new site selected due to its proximity to the railway station.It was formally closed in June 1998, after being abandoned several years earlier and was replaced with a new housing development and Dashwood Banbury Academy, a primary school.Banbury Rural District had built another water works on the present site in the 1890s as the need for formal sewerage treatment as well as water purification grew as the town expanded ever outward as illustrated in the 1882, 1900, 1910 and 1922 Ordnance Survey maps.