A report on Cherwell District, Oxfordshire and Bicester

Brasenose Lane in Oxford city centre, a street onto which three colleges back.
The University of Oxford's Chemistry Research Laboratory.
Late 17th century house in Market Square
Bicester, the second-largest settlement in the district
The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay, a ‘textbook’ example of the English medieval manor house.
Bicester Library
Kidlington, the third-largest settlement in the district and one of the largest villages in England
Wantage Market Place
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.
Part of Bicester Village
Tower of St Edburg's Parish Church

Cherwell is a local government district in northern Oxfordshire, England.

- Cherwell District

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

- Bicester

Towns in Cherwell include Banbury and Bicester.

- Cherwell District

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.

- Oxfordshire

The county is divided into five local government districts: Oxford, Cherwell, Vale of White Horse (after the Uffington White Horse), West Oxfordshire and South Oxfordshire, which deal with such matters as town and country planning, waste collection, and housing.

- Oxfordshire

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Banbury

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The town hall in December 2005
People's Park in 2001
Banbury's oldest pub, the Reindeer Inn
The modern Castle Quay Shopping Centre alongside the Oxford Canal, with Banbury Museum in the background
Banbury's Fine Lady Statue.
Some old houses in Aynho, which is claimed to be in Banburyshire
Map of Banbury
Banbury High Street.
Banbury Market Place.
The Jacobs Douwe Egberts factory in Banbury has been a major employer in the town since the mid-1960s.
Banbury railway station
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.
Spiceball centre in 2010
Plaque at bridge 164 on the Oxford Canal, Banbury
St Mary's parish church, built in the 1790s to replace a Medieval predecessor

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

The main railway station, previously called Banbury General but now called simply Banbury, is now served by trains running from London Paddington via Reading and Oxford, from London Marylebone via High Wycombe and Bicester onwards to Birmingham and Kidderminster and by Cross Country Trains from Bournemouth to Birmingham and Manchester.

It retained a borough council until 1974, when under the Local Government Act 1972 it became part of the traditionally Conservative-ruled Cherwell District Council, an unparished area with Charter Trustees.

River Cherwell

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Tributary of the River Thames in central England.

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)
Punts on the river at Oxford
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.

The river gives its name to the Cherwell local government district and Cherwell, an Oxford student newspaper.

By the weir the railway's older line continues down the valley to Oxford; east of it, a more direct route (opened in 1910 by the Great Western Railway) runs via Bicester and High Wycombe to London, originally connecting Paddington station, succeeded by London's newest main terminus, Marylebone.