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.

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

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Bampton Town Hall

Bampton, Oxfordshire

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Bampton Town Hall
The public library, built in the 1650s as the free school
Tadpole Bridge carries the road between Bampton and Buckland
The former Bampton Post Office, now a private house
John Philips
Churchgate House, the former Rectory

Bampton, also called Bampton-in-the-Bush, is a settlement and civil parish in the Thames Valley about 4+1/2 mi southwest of Witney in Oxfordshire.

West Oxfordshire

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West Oxfordshire is a local government district in northwest Oxfordshire, England, including towns such as Woodstock, Burford, Chipping Norton, Charlbury, Carterton and Witney, where the council is based.

Wootton, West Oxfordshire

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Village and civil parish on the River Glyme about 2 mi north of Woodstock, Oxfordshire.

Village and civil parish on the River Glyme about 2 mi north of Woodstock, Oxfordshire.

In recent years the village is sometimes referred to as Wootton-by-Woodstock to distinguish it from Wootton, Vale of White Horse, which was in Berkshire but was transferred to Oxfordshire in the 1974 local authority boundary changes.

Speedway racing at Cowley in 1980

Cowley, Oxfordshire

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Residential and industrial area in Oxford, England.

Residential and industrial area in Oxford, England.

Speedway racing at Cowley in 1980

It is behind the Mini car factory, starting opposite the Stagecoach in Oxfordshire bus garage.

Uffington White Horse, sketched by William Plenderleath in The White Horses of the West of England (1892)

Uffington White Horse

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Prehistoric hill figure, 110 m long, formed from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk.

Prehistoric hill figure, 110 m long, formed from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk.

Uffington White Horse, sketched by William Plenderleath in The White Horses of the West of England (1892)
The head of the horse, with sheep grazing around it.
White Horse Hill (left) and Dragon Hill (right)
The Manger, with the White Horse at centre skyline and Dragon Hill (left)
The Manger viewed from the White Horse
The Giant's Stair, taken from White Horse Hill
View from Dragon Hill road

The figure is situated on the upper slopes of White Horse Hill in the English civil parish of Uffington (in the ceremonial county of Oxfordshire and historic county of Berkshire), some 10 mi east of Swindon, 8 km south of the town of Faringdon and a similar distance west of the town of Wantage; or 2.5 km south of Uffington.

St Peter and St Paul's church, Stokenchurch

Stokenchurch

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Village and civil parish in south-west Buckinghamshire, England.

Village and civil parish in south-west Buckinghamshire, England.

St Peter and St Paul's church, Stokenchurch

It is located in the Chiltern Hills, about 3 mi south of Chinnor in Oxfordshire and 6 mi west of High Wycombe.

Langtree Hundred

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Langtree is an ancient hundred in the south-east of the county of Oxfordshire established during the Anglo-Saxon era.

Oxfordshire Way route map

Oxfordshire Way

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Oxfordshire Way route map

The Oxfordshire Way is a long-distance walk in Oxfordshire, England, with 6 miles in Gloucestershire and very short sections in Buckinghamshire.

Wilts & Berks Canal

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Canal in the historic counties of Wiltshire and Berkshire, England, linking the Kennet and Avon Canal at Semington, near Melksham, to the River Thames at Abingdon.

Canal in the historic counties of Wiltshire and Berkshire, England, linking the Kennet and Avon Canal at Semington, near Melksham, to the River Thames at Abingdon.

A stretch near Chippenham (Pewsham section)

The canal's original name is retained for historical reasons despite local council boundary changes in 1973 that transferred part of Berkshire through which the canal passes (mostly the Vale of White Horse) to Oxfordshire.

Bullingdon Hundred

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Bullingdon was a hundred in the county of Oxfordshire, covering an area to the east of Oxford.