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Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from Oxonium, the Latin name for Oxford) is a county in South East England. [1]

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Abbey

An abbey is a complex of buildings used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess.

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Abingdon County Hall Museum

Abingdon County Hall Museum (also known as Abingdon Museum) is a local museum in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England.

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Abingdon-on-Thames

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

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Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet.

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Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great (Ælfrēd, Ælfrǣd, "elf counsel" or "wise elf"; 849 – 26 October 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899.

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Anneliese Dodds

Anneliese Jane Dodds (born 16 March 1978) is a British Labour and Co-operative Party politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford East in 2017.

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Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is an area of countryside in England, Wales or Northern Ireland which has been designated for conservation due to its significant landscape value.

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Ashdown House, Oxfordshire

Ashdown House (also known as Ashdown Park) is a 17th-century country house in the civil parish of Ashbury in the English county of Oxfordshire.

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Ashmolean Museum

The Ashmolean Museum (in full the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology) on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is the world's first university museum.

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Augustinians

The term Augustinians, named after Augustine of Hippo (354–430), applies to two distinct types of Catholic religious orders, dating back to the first millennium but formally created in the 13th century, and some Anglican religious orders, created in the 19th century, though technically there is no "Order of St.

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Bampton, Oxfordshire

Bampton, also called Bampton-in-the-Bush, is a settlement and civil parish in the Thames Valley about southwest of Witney in Oxfordshire.

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Banbury

Banbury is a historic market town on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, England.

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Banbury Museum

Banbury Museum is a local museum in the town of Banbury, north Oxfordshire, England.

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Battle of Blenheim

The Battle of Blenheim (German:Zweite Schlacht bei Höchstädt; French Bataille de Höchstädt), fought on 13 August 1704, was a major battle of the War of the Spanish Succession.

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Benson, Oxfordshire

Benson is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England.

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Berkshire

Berkshire (abbreviated Berks, in the 17th century sometimes spelled Barkeshire as it is pronounced) is a county in south east England, west of London and is one of the home counties.

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Bicester

Bicester is a town and civil parish in the Cherwell district of northeastern Oxfordshire in England.

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Bicester Village

Bicester Village is an outlet shopping centre on the outskirts of Bicester, a town in Oxfordshire, England.

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Binfield

Binfield is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England, which at the 2011 census had a population of 8,689.

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Biotechnology

Biotechnology is the broad area of science involving living systems and organisms to develop or make products, or "any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use" (UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Art. 2).

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Blenheim Palace

Blenheim Palace (pronounced) is a monumental English country house situated in the civil parish of Blenheim near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

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Bloxham

Bloxham is a village and civil parish in northern Oxfordshire on the edge of the Cotswolds, about southwest of Banbury.

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British Transport Police

The British Transport Police (BTP) is a national special police force that polices railways and light-rail systems in England, Scotland and Wales, for which it has entered into an agreement to provide such services.

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Broughton Castle

Broughton Castle is a medieval fortified manor house in the village of Broughton which is about two miles south-west of Banbury, Oxfordshire, England on the B4035 road.

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Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire, abbreviated Bucks, is a county in South East England which 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.

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Bullingdon Hundred

Bullingdon is an ancient hundred in the south-east of the county of Oxfordshire.

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Burford

Burford is a medieval town on the River Windrush in the Cotswold hills in West Oxfordshire, England.

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Buscot

Buscot is a small village and medium-sized civil parish on the River Thames about south-east of Lechlade.

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Buscot Park

Buscot Park is a country house at Buscot near the town of Faringdon in Oxfordshire.

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Canal

Canals, or navigations, are human-made channels, or artificial waterways, for water conveyance, or to service water transport vehicles.

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Capability Brown

Lancelot Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783), more commonly known with the byname Capability Brown, was an English landscape architect.

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Carterton, Oxfordshire

Carterton is the second largest town in West Oxfordshire and is south of the A40 road and south-west of Witney.

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Carthusians

The Carthusian Order (Ordo Cartusiensis), also called the Order of Saint Bruno, is a Catholic religious order of enclosed monastics.

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Catherine of Alexandria

Saint Catherine of Alexandria, or Saint Catharine of Alexandria, also known as Saint Catherine of the Wheel and The Great Martyr Saint Catherine (Ϯⲁⲅⲓⲁ Ⲕⲁⲧⲧⲣⲓⲛ, ἡ Ἁγία Αἰκατερίνη ἡ Μεγαλομάρτυς – translation: Holy Catherine the Great Martyr) is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th century at the hands of the pagan emperor Maxentius.

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Caversham, Reading

Caversham is a suburb in the Borough of Reading, a unitary authority, in the royal, non-administrative county of Berkshire, England.

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Ceremonial counties of England

The ceremonial counties, also referred to as the lieutenancy areas of England, are areas of England to which a Lord Lieutenant is appointed.

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Chadlington

Chadlington is a village and civil parish in the Evenlode Valley about south of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.

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Champs Chapel Museum of East Hendred

The Champs Chapel Museum of East Hendred is a local village museum housed in the former Chapel of Jesus of Bethlehem, built in 1453 by Carthusian monks and now commonly called Champs Chapel, at East Hendred in the English county of Oxfordshire (formerly in Berkshire).

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Charlbury

Charlbury is a small town and civil parish in the Evenlode valley, about north of Witney in West Oxfordshire.

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Chastleton House

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

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Cherwell District

Cherwell is a local government district in northern Oxfordshire, England.

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Chiltern Hills

The Chiltern Hills form a chalk escarpment in South East England.

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Chinnor

Chinnor is a large village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire about southeast of Thame.

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Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway

The Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway is a preserved standard gauge heritage railway with its headquarters and (at present) only station at Chinnor in South Oxfordshire, England.

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Chipping Norton

Chipping Norton is a market town and civil parish in the Cotswold Hills in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England, about southwest of Banbury and northwest of Oxford.

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Chiselhampton

Chiselhampton is a village on the River Thame about southeast of Oxford in Oxfordshire, England.

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Cholsey and Wallingford Railway

The Cholsey and Wallingford Railway is a long standard gauge heritage railway in the English county of Oxfordshire.

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Christopher Wren

Sir Christopher Wren PRS FRS (–) was an English anatomist, astronomer, geometer, and mathematician-physicist, as well as one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority.

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Claydon, Oxfordshire

Claydon is a village in Claydon with Clattercot civil parish, about north of Banbury in Oxfordshire.

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Cogges Manor Farm

Cogges Manor Farm is a one-time working farm in Cogges near Witney in Oxfordshire, England, now a heritage centre operated by a charitable trust and open to the public.

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Combe, Oxfordshire

Combe is a village and civil parish about northeast of Witney in Oxfordshire.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.

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Cotswold Wildlife Park

The Cotswold Wildlife Park & Gardens exhibits over 260 different species of animals and is the largest privately owned zoological collection in the UK (by species).

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Cotswolds

The Cotswolds is an area in south central England containing the Cotswold Hills, a range of rolling hills which rise from the meadows of the upper Thames to an escarpment, known as the Cotswold Edge, above the Severn Valley and Evesham Vale.

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Country club

A country club is a privately owned club, often with a membership quota and admittance by invitation or sponsorship, that generally offers both a variety of recreational sports and facilities for dining and entertaining.

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Country park

A country park is an area designated for people to visit and enjoy recreation in a countryside environment.

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Cowley Barracks

Cowley Barracks (originally Bullingdon Barracks) was a military installation in Cowley, Oxfordshire, England.

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Cowley, Oxfordshire

Cowley in Oxford, England, is a residential and industrial area that forms a small conurbation within greater Oxford.

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Deddington

Deddington is a civil parish and small town in Oxfordshire about south of Banbury.

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Didcot

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

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Didcot Railway Centre

Didcot Railway Centre is a former Great Western Railway engine-shed and locomotive stabling point located in Didcot, Oxfordshire, England, which today has been converted into a railway museum and preservation engineering site.

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Diesel locomotive

A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engine.

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Dorchester Abbey

The Abbey Church of St Peter and St Paul, more usually called Dorchester Abbey, is a Church of England parish church in Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire, about southeast of Oxford.

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Dorchester on Thames

Dorchester on Thames (or Dorchester-on-Thames) is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about northwest of Wallingford and southeast of Oxford.

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Dovecote

A dovecote or dovecot (Scots: doocot) is a structure intended to house pigeons or doves.

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East Hagbourne

East Hagbourne is a village and civil parish about south of Didcot and south of Oxford.

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Ed Vaizey

Edward Henry Butler Vaizey (born 5 June 1968) is a British politician of the Conservative Party.

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Elizabethan era

The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603).

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English country house

An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside.

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English landscape garden

The English landscape garden, also called English landscape park or simply the English garden (Jardin à l'anglaise, Giardino all'inglese, Englischer Landschaftsgarten, Jardim inglês, Jardín inglés), is a style of "landscape" garden which emerged in England in the early 18th century, and spread across Europe, replacing the more formal, symmetrical jardin à la française of the 17th century as the principal gardening style of Europe.

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Ewelme

Ewelme is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire, north-east of the market town of Wallingford.

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Eynsham

Eynsham is an expanding village and civil parish about north-west of Oxford and east of Witney, in Oxfordshire, England.

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Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh Dickinson University is a private, coeducational and nonsectarian university founded in 1942.

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Faringdon

Faringdon is a historic market town in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England.

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Floral emblem

In a number of countries, plants have been chosen as symbols to represent specific geographic areas.

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Fritillaria meleagris

Fritillaria meleagris is a Eurasian species of flowering plant in the lily family.

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Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire (formerly abbreviated as Gloucs. in print but now often as Glos.) is a county in South West England.

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Gosford, Oxfordshire

Gosford is a village immediately southeast of Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England.

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Great Coxwell Barn

Great Coxwell Barn is a Mediæval barn at Great Coxwell, Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire), England.

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Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales.

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Green belt (United Kingdom)

In United Kingdom town planning, the green belt is a policy for controlling urban growth.

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Greys Court

Greys Court is a Tudor country house and gardens in the southern Chiltern Hills at Rotherfield Greys, near Henley-on-Thames in the county of Oxfordshire, England.

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Grove, Oxfordshire

Grove is a village and civil parish on Letcombe Brook, about north of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse.

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Gunpowder Plot

The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby.

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Guy Fawkes

Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

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Headington

Headington is a suburb of Oxford, England.

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Henley-on-Thames

Henley-on-Thames is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England, northeast of Reading, west of Maidenhead and southeast of Oxford, near the tripoint of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.

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Heythrop Park

Heythrop Park is a Grade II* listed early 18th-century country house southeast of Heythrop in Oxfordshire.

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High Sheriff of Oxfordshire

The High Sheriff of Oxfordshire, in common with other counties, was originally the King's representative on taxation upholding the law in Saxon times.

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Historic counties of England

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 Anglo-Saxons and others.

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Historic England Archive

The Historic England Archive is the public archive of Historic England, located in The Engine House on Fire Fly Avenue in Swindon, formerly part of the Swindon Works of the Great Western Railway.

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Holwell, Oxfordshire

Holwell is a village and civil parish about south of Burford in West Oxfordshire.

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Hook Norton Brewery

Hook Norton Brewery is a regional brewery in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England, several miles outside of the Cotswold Hills.

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Hundred (county division)

A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region.

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Iffley

Iffley is a village in a designated Conservation Area in Oxfordshire, England.

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Islip, Oxfordshire

Islip is a village and civil parish on the River Ray, just above its confluence with the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, England.

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James Gibbs

James Gibbs (23 December 1682 – 5 August 1754) was one of Britain's most influential architects.

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John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, (26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722 O.S.) was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns of five monarchs.

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John Howell (politician)

John Michael Howell (born 27 July 1955) is a British Conservative politician.

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John Vanbrugh

Sir John Vanbrugh (24 January 1664 (baptised) – 26 March 1726) was an English architect and dramatist, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard.

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Kelmscott Manor

Kelmscott Manor is a limestone manor house in the Cotswolds village of Kelmscott, in West Oxfordshire, southern England.

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Kennington, Oxfordshire

Kennington is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire, just south of Oxford.

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Kidlington

Kidlington is a large village and civil parish between the River Cherwell and the Oxford Canal, north of Oxford and southwest of Bicester.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

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Langtree Hundred

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

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Layla Moran

Layla Michelle Moran (born 12 September 1982) is a British Liberal Democrat politician.

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Lewknor

Lewknor is a village and civil parish about south of Thame in Oxfordshire.The civil parish includes the villages of Postcombe and South Weston.

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Liberal Democrats (UK)

The Liberal Democrats (often referred to as Lib Dems) are a liberal British political party, formed in 1988 as a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party (SDP), a splinter group from the Labour Party, which had formed the SDP–Liberal Alliance from 1981.

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Local government

A local government is a form of public administration which, in a majority of contexts, exists as the lowest tier of administration within a given state.

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Local Government Act 1972

The Local Government Act 1972 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974.

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Long Hanborough

Long Hanborough is a village in Hanborough civil parish, about northeast of Witney in West Oxfordshire, England.

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Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire

This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire.

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Macmillan Way

The Macmillan Way is a long-distance footpath in England that links Boston, Lincolnshire to Abbotsbury in Dorset.

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Manor house

A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor.

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Mapledurham House

Mapledurham House is an Elizabethan stately home located in the civil parish of Mapledurham in the English county of Oxfordshire.

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a 1st-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, and the mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament and the Quran.

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Megalith

A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones.

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Milton, Vale of White Horse

Milton is a village and civil parish about west of Didcot and a similar distance south of Abingdon.

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Minster Lovell

Minster Lovell is a village and civil parish on the River Windrush about west of Witney in Oxfordshire.

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Moreton, Thame, Oxfordshire

Moreton is a hamlet southwest of Thame in Oxfordshire, England.

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Morris Motors

Morris Motors Limited was a British privately owned motor vehicle manufacturing company formed in 1919 to take over the assets of William Morris's WRM Motors Limited and continue production of the same vehicles.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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No overall control

In the context of local authorities in the United Kingdom, the term no overall control (abbreviated to NOC) refers to a situation in which no single political group achieves a majority of seats; and is analogous to a hung parliament.

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Non-metropolitan district

Non-metropolitan districts, or colloquially "shire districts", are a type of local government district in England.

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Norman architecture

The term Norman architecture is used to categorise styles of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans in the various lands under their dominion or influence in the 11th and 12th centuries.

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North Wessex Downs

The North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) (also known as the Chalkenwolds) is located in the English counties of West Berkshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire.

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Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire (abbreviated Northants.), archaically known as the County of Northampton, is a county in the East Midlands of England.

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Nuneham Courtenay

Nuneham Courtenay is a village and civil parish about southeast of Oxford, it occupies a pronounced section of left bank of the River Thames.

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Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Ox

An ox (plural oxen), also known as a bullock in Australia and India, is a bovine trained as a draft animal or riding animal.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Oxford Brookes University

Oxford Brookes University is a public university in Oxford, England.

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Oxford Bus Museum

The Oxford Bus Museum is a transport museum at Long Hanborough, West Oxfordshire, England, about northeast of Witney and northwest of the city of Oxford.

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Oxford Canal

The Oxford Canal is a narrow canal in central England linking Oxford with Bedworth (between Coventry and Nuneaton on the Coventry Canal) via Banbury and Rugby.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry was a light infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1881 until 1958, serving in the Second Boer War, World War I and World War II.

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Oxfordshire Artweeks

Oxfordshire Artweeks is an annual art festival held in Oxfordshire, England for three weeks each May.

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Oxfordshire County Council

Oxfordshire County Council, established in 1889, is the county council, or upper-tier local authority, for the non-metropolitan county of Oxfordshire, in the South East of England, an elected body responsible for the most strategic local government services in the county.

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Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service

The Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service is the fire service serving the county of Oxfordshire, England.

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Oxfordshire Way

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

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Parish church

A parish church (or parochial church) in Christianity is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish.

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Playhatch

Playhatch (or Play Hatch) is a hamlet in the civil parish of Eye & Dunsden in South Oxfordshire, England, about northeast of Reading, Berkshire.

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Ploughley Rural District

Ploughley was a rural district in Oxfordshire, England, from 1932 to 1974.

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Pyrton

Pyrton is a small village and large civil parish in Oxfordshire about north of the small town of Watlington and south of Thame.

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Radcliffe Camera

The Radcliffe Camera (Camera, meaning "room" in Latin; colloquially, "Rad Cam" or "The Camera") is a building of Oxford University, England, designed by James Gibbs in neo-classical style and built in 1737–49 to house the Radcliffe Science Library.

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Reading, Berkshire

Reading is a large, historically important minster town in Berkshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Recusancy

Recusancy was the state of those who refused to attend Anglican services during the history of England and Wales and of Ireland; these individuals were known as recusants.

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River and Rowing Museum

The River & Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, is located on a site at Mill Meadows by the River Thames.

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River Cherwell

The River Cherwell is a major tributary of the River Thames in central England.

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River Evenlode

The River Evenlode is a river in England which is a tributary of the Thames in Oxfordshire.

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River Thame

The River Thame is a river in Southern England.

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River Thames

The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London.

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River Windrush

The River Windrush is a stream and river in the English Cotswolds in the upper Thames catchment.

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Robert Catesby

Robert Catesby (born no earlier than 3 March 1572, died 8 November 1605) was the leader of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

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Robert Courts

Robert Alexander Courts (born 21 October 1978) is a British politician and barrister.

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Rollright Stones

The Rollright Stones is a complex of three Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monuments near the village of Long Compton, on the borders of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire.

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Rotherfield Greys

Rotherfield Greys is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire.

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Rousham House

Rousham House (also known as Rousham Park) is a country house at Rousham in Oxfordshire, England.

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Sheldonian Theatre

The Sheldonian Theatre, located in Oxford, England, was built from 1664 to 1669 after a design by Christopher Wren for the University of Oxford.

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Shiplake

Shiplake is a two-centred village and rural civil parish on the left bank of the River Thames centred south of Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, England.

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Shotover

Shotover is a hill and forest in Oxfordshire, England.

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Sixth form

In the education systems of England, Northern Ireland, Wales and some other Commonwealth countries, sixth form (sometimes referred to as Key Stage 5) represents the final 1-3 years of secondary education (high school), where students (typically between 16 and 18 years of age) prepare for their A-level (or equivalent) examinations.

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Social services

Social services are a range of public services provided by the government, private, and non-profit organizations.

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South Central Ambulance Service

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS) is the authority responsible for providing NHS ambulance services in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Hampshire, excluding North East Hampshire which is served by the South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) and the Shrivenham area of Oxfordshire which is served by the South West Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWAS).

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South East England

South East England is the most populous of the nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.

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South Oxfordshire

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

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Stanton Harcourt

Stanton Harcourt is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire about southeast of Witney and about west of Oxford.

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Steam engine

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.

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Steam locomotive

A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.

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Stokenchurch

Stokenchurch is a village and civil parish within Wycombe District in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Stone circle

A stone circle is an alignment of standing stones arranged in a circle.

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Stonor

Stonor is a mostly cultivated and wooded village centred north of Henley-on-Thames in South Oxfordshire, England.

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Stonor Park

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

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Swalcliffe

Swalcliffe is a village and civil parish about west of Banbury in Oxfordshire.

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Thame

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

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Thames Path

The Thames Path is a National Trail following the River Thames from its source near Kemble in Gloucestershire to the Thames Barrier at Charlton, south east London.

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Thames Valley Air Ambulance

The Thames Valley Air Ambulance (TVAA, previously the Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance) is an organisation providing emergency medical services through the provision of a helicopter air ambulance covering the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire in the South East of England.

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Thames Valley Police

Thames Valley Police, formerly known as Thames Valley Constabulary, is the territorial police force responsible for policing the Thames Valley area covered by the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.

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The Oxfordshire Museum

The Oxfordshire Museum (also known as Oxfordshire County Museum) is in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, located opposite the Bear Hotel.

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The Ridgeway

The ancient tree-lined path winds over the downs countryside The Ridgeway is a ridgeway or ancient trackway described as Britain's oldest road.

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Tithe barn

A tithe barn was a type of barn used in much of northern Europe in the Middle Ages for storing rents and tithes.

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Tower mill

A tower mill is a type of vertical windmill consisting of a brick or stone tower, on which sits a wooden 'cap' or roof, which can rotate to bring the sails into the wind.

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Town and country planning in the United Kingdom

Town and country planning in the United Kingdom is the part of English land law which concerns land use planning.

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Uffington Castle

Uffington Castle is an early Iron Age (with underlying Bronze Age) univallate hillfort in Oxfordshire, England.

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Uffington White Horse

The Uffington White Horse is a highly stylised prehistoric hill figure, long, formed from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk.

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United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016

The United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, also known as the EU referendum and the Brexit referendum, took place on 23 June 2016 in the United Kingdom (UK) and Gibraltar to gauge support for the country either remaining a member of, or leaving, the European Union (EU) under the provisions of the European Union Referendum Act 2015 and also the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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University of Oxford Botanic Garden

The University of Oxford Botanic Garden is the oldest botanic garden in Great Britain and one of the oldest scientific gardens in the world.

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Vale and Downland Museum

The Vale and Downland Museum is a local museum in the market town of Wantage, Oxfordshire, England.

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Vale of White Horse

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

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Victoria Prentis

Victoria Mary Boswell Prentis (born 24 March 1971) is a British Conservative Party politician who was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Banbury at the 2015 general election, and re-elected at the 2017 general election.

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Wallingford Museum

Wallingford Museum is a museum with collections of local interest, housed in a Tudor house in High Street, Wallingford, Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire).

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Wallingford, Oxfordshire

Wallingford is an ancient market town and civil parish in the upper Thames Valley in England.

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Wantage

Wantage is a historic market town and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Oxfordshire, England.

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Warwickshire

Warwickshire (abbreviated Warks) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England.

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Watermill

A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower.

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Watlington, Oxfordshire

Watlington is a market town and civil parish about south of Thame in Oxfordshire, near the county's eastern edge and less than from its border with Buckinghamshire.

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Wayland's Smithy

Wayland's Smithy is a Neolithic long barrow and chamber tomb site located near the Uffington White Horse and Uffington Castle, at Ashbury in the English county of Oxfordshire.

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West Oxfordshire

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

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Westwell, Oxfordshire

Westwell is a village and civil parish about southwest of Burford in Oxfordshire.

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Wheatley, Oxfordshire

Wheatley is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about east of Oxford.

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William Morris

William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist.

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Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a county in South West England with an area of.

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Windmill

A windmill is a mill that converts the energy of wind into rotational energy by means of vanes called sails or blades.

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

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Witney

Witney is a historic market town on the River Windrush, west of Oxford in Oxfordshire, England.

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Woodstock, Oxfordshire

Woodstock is a market town and civil parish northwest of Oxford in Oxfordshire, England.

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Wootton, West Oxfordshire

Wootton is a village and civil parish on the River Glyme about north of Woodstock, Oxfordshire.

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World Heritage site

A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.

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Wroxton Abbey

Wroxton Abbey is a Jacobean house in Oxfordshire, with a 1727 garden partly converted to the serpentine style between 1731 and 1751.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxfordshire

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