A report on Oxfordshire

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

The University of Oxford's Chemistry Research Laboratory.

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

Landlocked county in the far west of the government statistical region of South East England.

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Windsor Castle, viewed from the Long Walk

Berkshire

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Historic county in South East England.

Virginia Water Lake on the southern edge of Windsor Great Park

Slough Trading Estate plays a major part in making Slough an important business centre in South East England

The Select Car Leasing Stadium in Reading

The historic county, therefore, includes territory that is now administered by the Vale of White Horse and parts of South Oxfordshire in Oxfordshire, but excludes Caversham, Slough and five less populous settlements in the east of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.

River Thames

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River that flows through southern England including London.

A statue of Old Father Thames by Raffaelle Monti at St John's Lock, Lechlade

Sculpture of Tamesis. Downstream keystone of the central arch of Henley Bridge

The marker stone at the official source of the River Thames named Thames Head near Kemble

The Thames Barrier provides protection against floods

The Thames passes by some of the sights of London, including the Houses of Parliament and the London Eye

The Thames passing through the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

London Stone at Staines, built in 1285 marked the customs limit of the Thames and the City of London's jurisdiction

Waterstand of Thames at low tide (left) and high tide (right) in comparison at Blackfriars Bridge in London

London City Airport is on the site of a dock

European LGM refuges, 20,000 years ago. The Thames was a minor river that joined the Rhine, in the southern North Sea basin at this time.

A geological map of the London Basin; the London Clay is marked in dark brown

The confluence of the Rivers Thames and Brent. The narrowboat is heading up the River Brent. From this point as far as Hanwell the Brent has been canalised and shares its course with the main line of the Grand Union Canal. From Hanwell the Brent can be traced to various sources in the Barnet area.

The Tower of London begun in the 11th century, with Tower Bridge, built 800 years later

A 1616 engraving by Claes Van Visscher showing the Old London Bridge, with St Mary's Overie (over-the-river), now Southwark Cathedral in the foreground

Michael Faraday giving his card to Father Thames, caricature commenting on a letter of Faraday's on the state of the river in The Times in July 1855

Satirical cartoon by William Heath, showing a woman observing monsters in a drop of London water (at the time of the Commission on the London Water Supply report, 1828)

The Thames as it flows through east London, with the Isle of Dogs in the centre

Houseboats on the River Thames, in the St Margaret's, Twickenham district

The London Cable Car, over the River Thames

Pool of London looking west, from the high-level walkway on Tower Bridge. Click on the picture for a longer description

A container ship unloading at Northfleet Hope terminal, Tilbury

A ship heading downstream past Coryton Refinery

Rubbish traps are used on the Thames to filter debris as it flows through central London

The Millennium Footbridge with St Paul's Cathedral in the background

Cambridge cross the finish line ahead of Oxford in the 2007 Boat Race, viewed from Chiswick Bridge

A seal in the river at St Saviour's Dock, London

The flooded Canvey Island sea front, amusements and residential areas in 1953

Houses of Parliament Sunlight Effect (Le Parlement effet de soleil) – Claude Monet

The first Westminster Bridge as painted by Canaletto in 1746.

The River Thames from Richmond House by Canaletto, 1747

Maidenhead Railway Bridge as Turner saw it in 1844

Monet's Trouée de soleil dans le brouillard, Houses of Parliament, London, Sun Breaking Through the Fog, 1904

Whistler's Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Old Battersea Bridge (c. 1872–1875)

Foggy Morning on the Thames – James Hamilton (between 1872 and 1878)

Boating on the Thames - John Lavery, circa 1890

Sculptures titled Tamesis and Isis by Anne Seymour Damer can be found on the bridge at Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire (the original terracotta and plaster models were exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, in 1785.

Oxford

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City in England.

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

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

The Divinity School at the Bodleian Library

Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Galleries at the Museum of Natural History

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

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

It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire.

Banbury

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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 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

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.

Long Alley Almshouses next to St Helen's parish church

Abingdon-on-Thames

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Abingdon Bridge spans the River Thames. It was built in 1416 and much altered in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

St Helen's parish church from across the Thames

A sign in Abingdon-on-Thames’ town centre showing directions to nearby locations

Abingdon-on-Thames, commonly known as Abingdon, is a historic market town and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Oxfordshire, England, on the River Thames.

Wiltshire

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Historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of 3485 km2.

The County Ground, Swindon is the home of Swindon Town, the only football league club in Wiltshire

A bridge over the River Avon at Bradford-on-Avon

The flight of 16 locks at Caen Hill on the Kennet and Avon Canal

It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwest, Somerset to the west, Hampshire to the southeast, Gloucestershire to the north, Oxfordshire to the northeast and Berkshire to the east.

The historic boundaries of the county shown in John Speed's map of the county in his Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, c. undefined 1611. A depiction of the town of Northampton is inset in the top left, and the city of Peterborough in the bottom right.

Northamptonshire

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County in the South Midlands of England.

Silverstone adds millions every year to the local economy - Kimi Räikkönen testing for McLaren at Silverstone in April 2006

An East Midlands Trains service approaching Wellingborough on the Midland Main Line

BBC Radio Northampton's Broadcasting House

Statue inscribed ‘They tackled the job’ outside Franklin's Gardens

Covering an area of 2,364 square kilometres (913 sq mi), Northamptonshire is landlocked between eight other counties: Warwickshire to the west, Leicestershire and Rutland to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshire to the south-east, Buckinghamshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the south-west and Lincolnshire to the north-east – England's shortest administrative county boundary at 20 yards (19 metres).

Warwickshire

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County in the West Midlands region of England.

Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick from Church Street

Warwickshire is bordered by Leicestershire to the northeast, Staffordshire to the northwest, Worcestershire and the West Midlands to the west, Northamptonshire to the east and southeast, Gloucestershire to the southwest and Oxfordshire to the south.

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.

Gloucestershire

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County in South West England.

The south cloister of Gloucester Cathedral was used for filming scenes in the Harry Potter films.

A boar of the local Gloucestershire Old Spot breed.

Gloucestershire borders Herefordshire to the north-west, Worcestershire to the north, Warwickshire to the north-east, Oxfordshire to the east, Wiltshire to the south, Bristol and Somerset to the south-west, and the Welsh county of Monmouthshire to the west.