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.
Wantage Market Place

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

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

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Holy Trinity parish church, Woodgreen

Witney

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Holy Trinity parish church, Woodgreen
The Butter Cross
Witney Town Hall
Witney railway station in 1962
Road sign for Witney
View along Bridge Street, Witney, toward West End when it was flooded, 22 July 2007

Witney is a market town on the River Windrush in West Oxfordshire in the county of Oxfordshire, England.

Bibury, a typical Cotswold village

Cotswolds

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Region in central-southwest England, along a range of rolling hills that rise from the meadows of the upper Thames to an escarpment above the Severn Valley and Evesham Vale.

Region in central-southwest England, along a range of rolling hills that rise from the meadows of the upper Thames to an escarpment above the Severn Valley and Evesham Vale.

Bibury, a typical Cotswold village
Row houses of Cotswold stone in Broadway, Worcestershire; the quaint buildings of the village attract numerous tourists
Broadway row houses of Cotswold stone
Some of the stone cottages feature thatched roofs, although slate is now more common (Stretton-On-Fosse)
The Secret Garden at Sudeley Castle
Map of Cotswolds roads from 1933

It lies across the boundaries of several English counties; mainly Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, and parts of Wiltshire, Somerset, Worcestershire, and Warwickshire.

Chalk visible in ploughed soil at the foot of the Chiltern Hill escarpment near Shirburn on the Buckinghamshire/Oxfordshire border

Chiltern Hills

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Chalk escarpment in England.

Chalk escarpment in England.

Chalk visible in ploughed soil at the foot of the Chiltern Hill escarpment near Shirburn on the Buckinghamshire/Oxfordshire border
Viewed from The Ridgeway: eastern trailhead on Ivinghoe Beacon
Stokenchurch Gap, a cutting built to carry the M40 motorway through a section of the Chiltern Hills
Bottle kiln in Nettlebed, Oxfordshire (probably late 17th-century)
Watlington Town Hall
Vernacular architecture of the Chilterns is preserved at the Chiltern Open Air Museum

The area, northwest of London, covers 660 sqmi stretching 45 mi from Goring-on-Thames in the southwest to Hitchin in the northeast - across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, and Bedfordshire.

The Counties of England as recorded in the Domesday Book.

Historic counties of England

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The historic counties of England are areas that were established for administration by the Normans, in many cases based on earlier kingdoms and shires created by the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Celts and others.

The historic counties of England are areas that were established for administration by the Normans, in many cases based on earlier kingdoms and shires created by the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Celts and others.

The Counties of England as recorded in the Domesday Book.
An 1824 map of the English and Welsh counties
This (rather inaccurate) 1814 map shows Dudley in a detached part of Worcestershire surrounded by Staffordshire. Note the exclave of Shropshire (the parish of Halesowen), just to the south-east and part of Staffordshire (Broome and Clent) to the south-west as well.
Notice on the Corn Exchange, Royal Tunbridge Wells, mentioning the historic county boundary
The ancient county boundaries of Warwickshire cover a larger area than the administrative area in 1974 (in green).
Former postal counties of England from 1974 to 1996

Some abbreviations are not obvious, such as "Salop" for Shropshire, from the Norman-derived word for its county town Shrewsbury; "Oxon" for Oxfordshire, from Latin Oxonium (referring to both the county and the city of Oxford); "Hants" for Hampshire; and "Northants" for Northamptonshire.

Aerial image of Harwell Science and Innovation Campus

Harwell Science and Innovation Campus

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Aerial image of Harwell Science and Innovation Campus

The Harwell Science and Innovation Campus is a 700-acre science and technology campus in Oxfordshire, England.

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.

South Oxfordshire

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South Oxfordshire is a local government district in the ceremonial county of Oxfordshire, England.

Reading, Berkshire

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Town and borough in Berkshire, South-East England.

Town and borough in Berkshire, South-East England.

The earliest map of Reading, published in 1611 by John Speed
View of Reading from Caversham by Joseph Farington in 1793
Reading Town Hall
Current boundaries of the Borough of Reading
The gateway as restored in 2018
River Kennet during the 2007 floods at the riverside level of The Oracle
Borough of Reading population growth rate from 1801 to 2011
Reading International Business Park. This crescent of offices beside the A33 are home to Verizon, a telecommunications company. They were formerly the European headquarters of WorldCom before its demise
The front of the store on Broad Street
The central lake makes a virtue of the necessity of flood alleviation measures
Green Park wind turbine viewed from Lime Square
Aerial view of Reading Festival 2007
The Abbey Gateway, where Jane Austen went to school
The Maiwand Lion in Forbury Gardens
The Royal Berkshire Hospital original frontage, built in 1839 with bath stone
The former hospitium
The River Thames from Caversham Bridge looking eastwards
Aerial view of Reading station in August 2014
A Great Western Railway with a service to London
Reading station platforms showing new footbridge
Part of the University of Reading's main Whiteknights Campus
Entrance to the Museum
The rear garden, with the original East Thorpe House in the centre
St Mary's Church tower, chequered with flint and ashlar
The interior of the ruined chapter house
The Madejski Stadium, home of Reading Football Club
The Madejski Stadium as viewed from the stadium's north stand.
The Voco Reading Hotel, pictured when still known as the Millennium Madejski
The Reading Half Marathon 2004 climbing Russell Street in West Reading

The town continued to expand in the 20th century, annexing Caversham across the River Thames in Oxfordshire in 1911.

Oxford Canal

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78 mi narrowboat canal in central England linking the City of Oxford with the Coventry Canal at Hawkesbury via Banbury and Rugby.

78 mi narrowboat canal in central England linking the City of Oxford with the Coventry Canal at Hawkesbury via Banbury and Rugby.

The canal and locks at Hillmorton
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 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.

St Mary the Virgin parish church

Thame

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St Mary the Virgin parish church
Entrance of the original grammar school building, completed in 1569
Stribblehills, a 17th-century timber-framed house with brick nogging
Arriva the Shires and Z&S buses at the stop outside Thame Town Hall
Bird Cage, an early 16th-century public house
Spread Eagle Hotel, built early in the 18th century

Thame is a market town and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about 13 mi east of the city of Oxford and 10 mi southwest of Aylesbury.