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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South front of Blenheim Palace

Woodstock, Oxfordshire

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South front of Blenheim Palace
Chaucers Lane, Woodstock

Woodstock is a market town and civil parish, 8 mi north-west of Oxford in West Oxfordshire in the county of Oxfordshire, England.

Fairleigh Dickinson University

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Private university with its main campuses in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

Private university with its main campuses in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

The Vanderbilt-Twombly mansion, centerpiece of FDU's Florham Campus
Dormitory at Florham Campus
Emblem of Wroxton College

Farleigh Dickinson University's Wroxton College is located in Wroxton, Oxfordshire, in South East England.

View of Caversham through the inner gateway of Reading Abbey in 1791

Caversham, Reading

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Suburb of Reading, England.

Suburb of Reading, England.

View of Caversham through the inner gateway of Reading Abbey in 1791
Bridge Street, looking north from Caversham Bridge c. 1905 by Henry Taunt
St Peter's Church

Caversham was an urban district and part of Oxfordshire until 9 November 1911, when it was transferred to Berkshire and became part of the county borough of Reading.

The Roaring Lion, a portrait by Yousuf Karsh at the Canadian Parliament, December 1941

Winston Churchill

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British statesman, soldier and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.

British statesman, soldier and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.

The Roaring Lion, a portrait by Yousuf Karsh at the Canadian Parliament, December 1941
Jennie Spencer Churchill with her two sons, Jack (left) and Winston (right) in 1889.
Churchill in the military dress uniform of the 4th Queen's Own Hussars at Aldershot in 1895.
Churchill in 1900 around the time of his first election to Parliament.
Churchill in 1904 when he "crossed the floor".
Churchill and German Kaiser Wilhelm II during a military manoeuvre near Breslau, Silesia, in 1906.
Churchill and his fiancée Clementine Hozier shortly before their marriage in 1908.
Churchill (second left) photographed at the Siege of Sidney Street.
As First Lord of the Admiralty, Churchill's London residency was Admiralty House (music room pictured).
Churchill commanding the 6th Battalion, the Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1916. His second-in-command, Archibald Sinclair, is seated on the left.
Churchill meets female workers at Georgetown's filling works near Glasgow in October 1918.
Churchill as Secretary of State for the Colonies during his visit to Mandatory Palestine, Tel Aviv, 1921.
Churchill with children Randolph and Diana in 1923.
Churchill on Budget Day with his wife Clementine and children Sarah and Randolph, 15 April 1929.
Churchill meeting with film star Charlie Chaplin in Los Angeles in 1929.
Churchill and Neville Chamberlain, the chief proponent of appeasement.
Churchill with Lord Halifax in 1938
Churchill takes aim with a Sten sub-machine gun in June 1941. The man in the pin-striped suit and fedora to the right is his bodyguard, Walter H. Thompson.
Churchill walks through the ruins of Coventry Cathedral with J A Moseley, M H Haigh, A R Grindlay and others, 1941.
Churchill and Roosevelt seated on the quarterdeck of for a Sunday service during the Atlantic Conference, 10 August 1941
Huge portraits of Churchill and Stalin, Brisbane, Australia, 31 October 1941
Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at the Tehran Conference in 1943.
Churchill in the Roman amphitheatre of ancient Carthage to address 3,000 British and American troops, June 1943
Churchill is greeted by a crowd in Québec City, Canada, 1943
Churchill's crossing of the Rhine river in Germany, during Operation Plunder on 25 March 1945.
Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin at the Yalta Conference, February 1945.
The destruction of Dresden, February 1945.
Churchill waving the Victory sign to the crowd in Whitehall on the day he broadcast to the nation that the war with Germany had been won, 8 May 1945. Ernest Bevin stands to his right.
Churchill at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945.
Churchill in 1949.
Churchill with Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, 10 February 1953.
Churchill with Anthony Eden, Dean Acheson and Harry Truman, 5 January 1952.
Churchill's grave at St Martin's Church, Bladon.
Allies (1995) by Lawrence Holofcener, a sculptural group depicting Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill in New Bond Street, London.
The statue of Churchill (1973) by Ivor Roberts-Jones in Parliament Square, London
The British Empire at its territorial peak in 1921.

Of mixed English and American parentage, Churchill was born in Oxfordshire to a wealthy, aristocratic family.

Fritillaria meleagris

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Eurasian species of flowering plant in the lily family Liliaceae.

Eurasian species of flowering plant in the lily family Liliaceae.

Botanical garden KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
At Magdalen College, Oxford
At Audubon's marsh, West France
In Sandemar beach meadows, west of Dalarö, Sweden
Ripe fruit
At Ovčar-Kablar Gorge, Serbia
Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, ⁨UK

A popular garden plant, it is now rare in the wild, although there are some notable sites where it is still found, such as the meadows at Magdalen College, Iffley Meadows, Oxford and the Oxfordshire village of Ducklington, which holds a "Fritillary Sunday" festival.

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Chastleton House

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Front elevation
Chastleton House – rear
Derelict Jacobean window on top floor
Gardens at Chastleton
Gardens at Chastleton

Chastleton House is a Jacobean country house at Chastleton, Oxfordshire, England, close to Moreton-in-Marsh.

A portrait painting of Brown painted by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1773

Capability Brown

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English gardener and landscape architect, who remains the most famous figure in the history of the English landscape garden style.

English gardener and landscape architect, who remains the most famous figure in the history of the English landscape garden style.

A portrait painting of Brown painted by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1773
Ha-ha and house at Berrington Hall, Brown's last big project, a new-build designed by his son-in-law, placed to exploit views in two directions
Badminton House: features of the Brownian landscape at full maturity in the 19th century
Brown's Pond at Sandleford, Berkshire. One of a string of former priory fish ponds adapted by Brown who was at Sandleford on behalf of Mrs Montagu from 1781.
At Blenheim Brown dammed the paltry stream flowing under Vanbrugh's Grand Bridge, drowning half the structure with improved results
Memorial to Capability Brown in the church of St Peter and St Paul, Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire
The grave of Capability Brown in the churchyard of St Peter and St Paul, Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire

Then he moved further inland, where his first landscape commission was for a new lake in the park at Kiddington Hall, Oxfordshire.

A silver coin of Alfred

Alfred the Great

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Alfred the Great (alt.

Alfred the Great (alt.

A silver coin of Alfred
Map of Britain in 886
Alfred's father Æthelwulf of Wessex in the early 14th-century Genealogical Roll of the Kings of England
A map of the route taken by the Viking Great Heathen Army which arrived in England from Denmark, Norway, and southern Sweden in 865
King Alfred's Tower (1772) on the supposed site of Egbert's Stone, the mustering place before the Battle of Edington.
A plaque in the City of London noting the restoration of the Roman walled city by Alfred
Alfred the Great silver offering penny, 871–899. Legend: AELFRED REX SAXONUM ('Alfred King of the Saxons').
A map of burhs named in the Burghal Hidage
The walled defence round a burh. The City Walls of Alfred's capital, Winchester. Saxon and medieval work on Roman foundations.
A coin of Alfred, London, 880 (based upon a Roman model)
Alfred depicted in a stained-glass window of c. 1905 in Bristol Cathedral
Line drawing of the Alfred Jewel, showing the socket at its base
The Alfred Jewel, in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, commissioned by Alfred; probably a pointer to aid reading
No known portrait of Alfred the Great exists from life. A likeness by artist and historian George S. Stuart created from his physical description mentioned in historical records.
A posthumous image of Queen Ealhswith, 1220
Alfred's will
Statue of Alfred the Great at Wantage, Oxfordshire
Eighteenth-century portrait of Alfred by Samuel Woodforde
1913 statue of Alfred in Pewsey, Wiltshire
Statue at Alfred University

King Alfred's Academy, a secondary school in Wantage, Oxfordshire, the birthplace of Alfred

The Shoulder of Mutton public house at Playhatch.

Playhatch

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Hamlet in the civil parish of Eye & Dunsden in South Oxfordshire, England, about 2 mi northeast of Reading, Berkshire.

Hamlet in the civil parish of Eye & Dunsden in South Oxfordshire, England, about 2 mi northeast of Reading, Berkshire.

The Shoulder of Mutton public house at Playhatch.

Before 1866, Playhatch formed part of the Oxfordshire section of Sonning civil parish.

View of Stonor House from the south

Stonor Park

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View of Stonor House from the south
Stonor House from the Deer Park (stone circle visible on the right)
Stonor Deer Park

Stonor Park is a historic country house and private deer park situated in a valley in the Chiltern Hills at Stonor, about 4 mi north of Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, England, close to the county boundary with Buckinghamshire.