A report on Oxford, Banbury and Oxfordshire

Brasenose Lane in Oxford city centre, a street onto which three colleges back.

The University of Oxford's Chemistry Research Laboratory.

19th-century view of the High Street in Oxford.

The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay, a ‘textbook’ example of the English medieval manor house.

Wellington Square, the name of which has become synonymous with the university's central administration

The modern Castle Quay Shopping Centre alongside the Oxford Canal, with Banbury Museum in the background

Some old houses in Aynho, which is claimed to be in Banburyshire

The Divinity School at the Bodleian Library

Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Galleries at the Museum of Natural History

The Jacobs Douwe Egberts factory in Banbury has been a major employer in the town since the mid-1960s.

A Stagecoach in Oxfordshire bus in Bridge Street on route B7 to Neithrop

The Fine Lady and Banbury Cross. The cross was designed by John Gibbs and erected in 1859.

Plaque at bridge 164 on the Oxford Canal, Banbury

Carfax Tower at Carfax, the junction of the High Street, Queen Street, Cornmarket and St Aldate's streets at what is considered by many to be the centre of the city

St Mary's parish church, built in the 1790s to replace a Medieval predecessor

Night view of High Street with Christmas lights – one of Oxford's main streets

Floral display in Oxford city centre in 2001

The air traffic control tower at Oxford Airport

Oxford Bus Company hybrid bus on a park & ride service

Oxford Bus Company flywheel energy storage bus on a BrookesBus service

Oxford railway station, in the city centre

Oxford Parkway Station, on the outskirts near Kidlington

Somerville College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford

Keble College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford

All Souls' College looking east up the High Street from St Mary's Church

The Bridge of Sighs links sections of Hertford College: as seen from New College Lane with the Sheldonian Theatre in the background

University Church of St Mary the Virgin as seen from Radcliffe Square

Broad Street, showing the main entrances to Trinity and Balliol Colleges, and obliquely, the frontage of Exeter College from the Sheldonian Theatre

Merton College Chapel and Corpus Christi College as viewed from the Oriel Square entrance to Merton Street

High Street as viewed from St Mary's, looking east, with Magdalen College in the distant background

The Manor Ground off London Road in Headington.

Rowing at Summer Eights, an annual intercollegiate bumps race

Men's 1st VIII Summer Eights 2007 coxed by Acer Nethercott

Choir and organ of Christ Church Cathedral

Banbury is a historic market town on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, South East England.

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It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire.

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As well as the city of Oxford, other centres of population are Banbury, Bicester, Kidlington and Chipping Norton to the north of Oxford; Carterton and Witney to the west; Thame and Chinnor to the east; and Abingdon-on-Thames, Wantage, Didcot, Wallingford and Henley-on-Thames to the south.

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Banbury is located 64 mi north-west of London, 37 mi south-east of Birmingham, 27 mi south-east of Coventry and 22 mi north-west of Oxford.

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A34 – a trunk route connecting the North and Midlands to the port of Southampton. It leaves J9 of the M40 north of Oxford, passes west of Oxford to Newbury and Winchester to the south and joins the M3 12.7 mi north of Southampton. Since the completion of the Newbury bypass in 1998, this section of the A34 has been an entirely grade separated dual carriageway. Historically the A34 led to Bicester, Banbury, Stratford-upon-Avon, Birmingham and Manchester, but since the completion of the M40 it disappears at J9 and re-emerges 50 mi north at Solihull.

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River Cherwell

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Tributary of the River Thames in central England.

The River Cherwell near Edgcote, Northamptonshire

View upstream as the River Cherwell (flowing under the bridge) is joined by the Oxford Canal (coming from the right)

The punt rollers at "Mesopotamia" on the River Cherwell in Oxford

It rises near Hellidon, Northamptonshire and flows southwards for 40 mi to meet the Thames at Oxford in Oxfordshire.

Two miles further on, the river swings westward a few miles, passing below the village of Chipping Warden through Edgcote, site of a Romano-British villa, then entering Oxfordshire at Hay's Bridge on the A361's Daventry to Banbury stretch.

Bicester

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Late 17th century house in Market Square

Bicester Town railway station in 2010. It has since been rebuilt, and was re-opened on 26 October 2015 as part of the Oxford - Bicester - London Marylebone line, and renamed Bicester Village railway station.

Bicester is a town and civil parish in the Cherwell district of northeastern Oxfordshire in Southern England.

Development has been favoured by its proximity to junction 9 of the M40 motorway linking it to London, Birmingham and Banbury.

It has good road links to Oxford, Kidlington, Brackley, Buckingham, Aylesbury and Witney and railway stations on two different lines: and.

Oxford Canal

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Geographic map of the Oxford Canal (zoom in to see detail)

A canal boat on the canal near Brinklow on the long stretch between Coventry and Rugby.

The Oxford Canal passes mainly through the Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire countryside, and is often considered to be one of the most scenic canals in Britain. The construction of the Oxford Canal in 1790 aided Banbury's growth. The shot is taken at Tooley's Boatyard, Banbury.

The abandoned tunnel at Newbold on the old route of the canal

Looking from the Oxford Canal towards Jericho, with the campanile tower of St Barnabas Church in the background.

The Oxford Canal is a 78 mi narrowboat canal in central England linking the City of Oxford with the Coventry Canal at Hawkesbury (just north of Coventry and south of Bedworth) via Banbury and Rugby.

The Oxford Canal traverses Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and east Warwickshire through broad, shallow valleys and lightly rolling hills; the canal's route northeast and then northwest forms part of the Warwickshire ring.