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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Buckinghamshire

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Ercol furniture factory, Princes Risborough

The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, Great Missenden

Little Kimble railway station, a typical rural village halt on the Aylesbury–Princes Risborough line

Milton Keynes Central railway station provides intercity and commuter services on the West Coast Main Line

The Gateway Building, Buckinghamshire New University, High Wycombe.

Buckingham church seen from across the Ouse

Buckinghamshire, abbreviated Bucks, is a ceremonial county in South East England that borders Greater London to the south-east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-east and Hertfordshire to the east.

Wantage

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Former head office of Wantage Urban District Council in Portway

Stagecoach Gold bus in Wantage Market Place on former route X30 (now S9)

The former head office of the Wantage Tramway Company in Mill Street

Front of King Alfred's Academy Centre Site

The Old Town Hall, Wantage, completed in 1878

Statue of Alfred the Great, by Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

Wantage is a historic market town and civil parish in Oxfordshire, England.

Vale of White Horse

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A panoramic view into the Vale; the White Horse is on the right and Dragon Hill centre right

Vale scene, with White Horse Hill on the horizon

The Uffington White Horse, as seen from an altitude of about 600 m (2000 ft), from the cockpit of a glider

The Vale of White Horse is a local government district of Oxfordshire in England.

Ceremonial counties before the creation of Greater London in 1965 (depicting each county corporate as part of its main county)

Ceremonial counties of England

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The counties and areas for the purposes of the lieutenancies, also referred to as the lieutenancy areas of England and informally known as ceremonial counties, are areas of England to which lords-lieutenant are appointed.

Ceremonial counties from 1974 to 1996 (City of London not shown)

Apart from minor boundary revisions (for example, Caversham, a town in Oxfordshire, becoming part of Reading county borough and thus of Berkshire, in 1911), these areas changed little until the 1965 creation of Greater London and of Huntingdon and Peterborough, which resulted in the abolition of the offices of Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex, Lord Lieutenant of the County of London, and Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire and the creation of the Lord Lieutenant of Greater London and of the Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdon and Peterborough.

All Saints' parish church, parts of which go back to the 12th century

Didcot

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White Cottage, the oldest house in Didcot

A Thames Travel bus on route 98 on Greenwood Way in the new Great Western Park estate

A GWR Class 800 from arriving on Platform 2

Aerial view of Didcot Power Stations A (centre) and B (extreme left)

The Didcot-built Williams FW06 from 1978, being raced at Silverstone in 2007

Opium poppies were being cultivated at Harwell in June 2009

Didcot Town Football Club's Station Road Ground in 1982

The name Middle Earth was added to this Didcot road sign by anonymous artist Athirty4

Didcot is a railway town and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Oxfordshire and the historic county of Berkshire.

Wallingford, Oxfordshire

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Historic market town and civil parish located between Oxford and Reading on the River Thames in England.

King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria

Dancing in the Market Square, Wallingford, at BunkFest

Although belonging to the historic county of Berkshire, it is within the ceremonial county of Oxfordshire for administrative purposes (since 1974) as a result of the 1972 Local Government Act.

Henley-on-Thames

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Henley Bridge, engraved in 1812 from a drawing by J. P. Neale, and published in The Beauties of England and Wales

Henley-on-Thames from the playground near the railway station

The actor David Tomlinson, seen here in the 1964 film Mary Poppins, was born and raised in the town.

Henley-on-Thames is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England, 9 mi northeast of Reading, 7 mi west of Maidenhead, 23 mi southeast of Oxford and 37 mi west of London (by road), near the tripoint of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.

Parish church of St Mary the Virgin. Its tall spire is a local landmark, nicknamed "Our Lady's Needle"

Kidlington

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The site of former Kidlington railway station

Lady Anne Morton's almshouses, next to the parish church

Kidlington is a large village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, England, between the River Cherwell and the Oxford Canal, 5 mi north of Oxford and 7½ miles (12 km) south-west of Bicester.

South East England

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One of the nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes.

Uffington White Horse, a prehistoric hill figure on the Berkshire Downs.

Harwell Science and Innovation Campus seen from the air in September 2015; the JANET academic computer network is headquartered there.

Terramycin, an early antibiotic developed by Pfizer in Kent, synthesised by American chemist Robert Burns Woodward, and led to the common antibiotic doxycycline.

South Foreland Lighthouse on Dover cliffs.

BritNed connects from the Isle of Grain in Medway to the TenneT network in the Netherlands.

England population density and low elevation coastal zones. South East England is particularly vulnerable to sea level rise

View of South East England coast from northern France.

The Litlington White Horse situated in the South Downs.

How the region voted in the 2016 European referendum; in the South East England region, only the Spelthorne district in Surrey strongly wanted to leave the EU; propensity for the EU followed the M3 and M4 corridors, western Oxfordshire and central parts of Sussex, including Brighton and Hove.

Reading School often gets the highest percentage of Oxbridge acceptances for a state school in England.

Tom Tower of Christ Church, Oxford; in 1920, the University of Oxford was the first in the UK to award degrees to women.

Redhill with the diesel Class 166 service run by First Great Western to Reading as the line has not got the Third rail electrification fully installed on the North Downs Line

Most main routes in the region are radials from London. Shown here is the A21. It is one of the major north–south routes connecting London and commuter towns and the coast

Vodafone HQ north of Newbury; it arrived as Racal-Vodafone in 1983, when Bayer also arrived; Vodafone is the world's second-biggest mobile phone company (the world's largest privately owned) with £40 billion of revenue and 464 million customers, and profits of £11bn; it has around 19M UK customers, and by value makes up about 5% of the FTSE 100.

Horlicks factory in Slough; GSK Slough makes 14,000 tonnes a year.

Jealott's Hill Research Station (pesticides), former ICI Plant Protection Division.

Sheilas' Wheels outside the head office of esure in Reigate; esure was started by Peter Wood.

Esso UK is based in Leatherhead; Esso have around 1,100 petrol stations in the UK - 14% of all stations, and pays around £7bn in UK tax, and own the Brent oil field; the site is also the worldwide base of ExxonMobil Aviation Fuels and Marine.

Martin-Baker Mk 9 ejection seat; Martin-Baker seats have saved around 950 RAF pilots, and around 7600 pilots around the world, and were developed by Sir James Martin (1893–1981) from Northern Ireland.

Argos head office on Avebury Boulevard in Milton Keynes; Argos was established in 1973 from what was the Green Shield Stamps company and shops, and since 2016 has been owned by Sainsbury's, formerly Home Retail Group.

Ordnance Survey headquarters at Adanac Park.

National Air Traffic Service headquarters at Swanwick.

The AA's headquarters at Fanum House in Basingstoke.

Virgin Atlantic on Manor Royal in Crawley; Virgin has 12 747s compared to BA's 56, but both have around 18 of the new Airbus 380; Gatwick now flies 40 million passengers a year, a world record for a single-runway airport.

Around 1,000 Minis are made each day in Cowley; BMW bought the plant in 1994 and has made around 3m since 2001; there are 4,500 staff and around ten miles of conveyors; the engines are made at Hams Hall in North Warwickshire.

Williams F1 at Grove, next to the Great Western Main Line and A338, north of Wantage.

BBC Research was based until 2010 in Kingswood Warren near Reigate in Surrey on the A217, which was responsible for developing stereo and HD TV broadcasts and teletext.

Michael Whyte on Highpark Lad at the British Jumping Derby at Hickstead in June 2011.

The Bat & Ball Inn, Clanfield, the birthplace of cricket.

It consists of the counties of Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Surrey and West Sussex.

St Mary the Virgin parish church, rebuilt c. 1485

Chipping Norton

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Chipping Norton Almshouses, founded in 1640

Chipping Norton Town Hall, built in 1842

Chipping Norton railway station, opened in 1855, pictured here in the early 1900s

The former British Schools building at 28–30 New Street, subsequently Chipping Norton Recording Studios

Chipping Norton is a market town and civil parish in the Cotswold Hills in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England, about 12 mi south-west of Banbury and 18 mi north-west of Oxford.