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Witney is a historic market town on the River Windrush, west of Oxford in Oxfordshire, England. [1]

146 relations: A40 road, Abingdon and Witney College, Alan Dapre, Ale, Andrew Logan, AstroTurf, Audley Travel, Bell tower, Benetton Formula, Bernie Sanders, Bishop of London, Blanket, Boydell & Brewer, Brakspear Brewery, British Rail, Brize Norton, Buttercross, Cask ale, Chancel, Change ringing, Charles, Prince of Wales, Chipping Norton, Church of England parish church, Cogges, Cogges Manor Farm, Cokethorpe School, Community school (England and Wales), Comprehensive school, Conservative Party (UK), Corn exchange, Courage Brewery, Darrell Griffin, David Cameron, David Moss (footballer, born 1952), Domesday Book, Douglas Hurd, Elim Fellowship, Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, England Hockey, English Gothic architecture, Enstone, Evangelicalism, Field hockey, Financial Times, Friends meeting house, George Wilkinson (architect), Gillingham F.C., Graham Leonard, Grammar school, Great Western Railway, ..., Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Hailey, Oxfordshire, Hellenic Football League, Henley-on-Thames, Henry Box School, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Hugh of Lincoln, Institute of Historical Research, Jamie Cook (footballer), Jorge Grant, King's School, Witney, Labour Party (UK), Larry Sanders (politician), Lawson D'Ath, Le Touquet, Learning disability, Liberal Democrats (UK), Local education authority, Lotus Cars, Lotus F1, Lourdes, Luton Town F.C., Malting process, Market square, Martin Jones (pianist), Mary, mother of Jesus, Member of parliament, Methodist Church of Great Britain, Middle Ages, Middlesbrough F.C., Miss Read, Monsignor, Nave, Newsquest, Norman architecture, Northampton Town F.C., Nottingham Forest F.C., Octagon, Old English, Oxford, Oxford Mail, Oxford University Press, Oxford, Witney and Fairford Railway, Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire County Council, Oxfordshire Guardian, Patrick Steptoe, Penguin Books, Pevsner Architectural Guides, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prisoner of war, Quakers, Red Dwarf, Renault, Renault in Formula One, River Windrush, Robbie Mustoe, Robert Courts, Robert Llewellyn, Rugby Football Union, Rugby league, Safe seat, Seat of local government, Shaun Woodward, Simon King (footballer), Sister city, Sixth form, Special needs, Spire, St Helens South (UK Parliament constituency), Swindon Town F.C., The National Archives (United Kingdom), Thomas Henry Wyatt, Toleman, Toponymy, Transept, Trinity, United Kingdom census, 2011, United Kingdom general election, 1997, United Kingdom general election, 2001, Unterhaching, Victoria County History, Voluntary controlled school, Waitrose Duchy Organic, West Oxfordshire, William Wilkinson (architect), Witney (UK Parliament constituency), Witney and District League, Witney by-election, 2016, Witney railway station, Witney railway station (goods), Witney Town F.C., Wood Green School, Workhouse, Wychwood Brewery. Expand index (96 more) »

A40 road

The A40 is a major trunk road connecting London to Goodwick (Fishguard), Wales, and officially called The London to Fishguard Trunk Road (A40) in all legal documents and Acts.

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Abingdon and Witney College

Abingdon & Witney College is a further education provider established in April 2001 after the merger of Abingdon College and West Oxfordshire College.

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Alan Dapre

Alan Dapré (born 1965) is a British writer who has successfully written for television, radio and publishers for over 20 years.

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Ale

Ale is a type of beer brewed using a warm fermentation method, resulting in a sweet, full-bodied and fruity taste.

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Andrew Logan

Andrew Logan (b. 11 Oct 1945) is an English sculptor, performance artist, jewellery-maker, and portraitist.

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AstroTurf

AstroTurf is a brand of artificial turf playing surface.

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Audley Travel

Audley Travel is a travel company based in the UK based in Witney, Oxfordshire, with offices in London and Boston.

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Bell tower

A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none.

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Benetton Formula

Benetton Formula Ltd., commonly referred to simply as Benetton, was a Formula One constructor that participated from to.

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Bernie Sanders

Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Vermont since 2007.

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Bishop of London

The Bishop of London is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury.

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Blanket

A blanket is a large piece of soft cloth.

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Boydell & Brewer

Boydell & Brewer is an academic press based in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England that specializes in publishing historical and critical works.

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Brakspear Brewery

W.H. Brakspear & Sons Ltd. was a brewery in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the state-owned company that operated most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

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Brize Norton

Brize Norton is a village and civil parish east of Carterton in West Oxfordshire.

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Buttercross

A buttercross, also known as butter cross, is a type of market cross associated with English market towns and dating from medieval times.

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Cask ale

Cask ale or cask-conditioned beer is unfiltered and unpasteurised beer which is conditioned (including secondary fermentation) and served from a cask without additional nitrogen or carbon dioxide pressure.

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Chancel

In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building.

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Change ringing

Change ringing is the art of ringing a set of tuned bells in a controlled manner to produce variations in their striking sequences.

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Charles, Prince of Wales

Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is the heir apparent to the British throne as the eldest child of Queen Elizabeth II.

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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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Church of England parish church

A parish church in the Church of England is the church which acts as the religious centre for the people within the smallest and most basic Church of England administrative region, the parish – since the 19th century called the ecclesiastical parish (outside meetings of the church) to avoid confusion with the civil parish which many towns and villages have.

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Cogges

Cogges is an area beside the River Windrush in Witney, Oxfordshire, east of the town centre.

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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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Cokethorpe School

Cokethorpe School is an independent school at Hardwick, West Oxfordshire, about south of Witney.

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Community school (England and Wales)

A community school in England and Wales is a type of state-funded school in which the local authority (LA) employs the school's staff, is responsible for the school's admissions and owns the school's estate.

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Comprehensive school

A comprehensive school is a secondary school that is a state school and does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude, in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria.

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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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Corn exchange

A corn exchange (English) is a building where merchants traded corns.

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Courage Brewery

Courage Brewery was an English brewery, founded by John Courage in 1787 in London, England.

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Darrell Griffin

Darrell Griffin (born 19 June 1981) is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays for the Keighley Cougars in League 1.

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David Cameron

David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016.

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David Moss (footballer, born 1952)

David John Moss (born 18 March 1952) is an English former footballer, most noted as a player for Luton Town and Swindon Town.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (or; Latin: Liber de Wintonia "Book of Winchester") is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror.

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Douglas Hurd

Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, (born 8 March 1930) is a British Conservative politician who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1979 to 1995.

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Elim Fellowship

The Elim Fellowship is a North American–based Pentecostal/charismatic Christian denomination that emphasizes the spread of revival and renewal.

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Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition

The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–11) is a 29-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

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England Hockey

England Hockey is the national governing body for the sport of field hockey in England.

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English Gothic architecture

English Gothic is an architectural style originating in France, before then flourishing in England from about 1180 until about 1520.

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Enstone

Enstone is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about east of Chipping Norton, and north-west of Oxford city.

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Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism, evangelical Christianity, or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, crossdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity which maintains the belief that the essence of the Gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ's atonement.

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Field hockey

Field hockey is a team game of the hockey family.

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a Japanese-owned (since 2015), English-language international daily newspaper headquartered in London, with a special emphasis on business and economic news.

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Friends meeting house

A Friends meeting house is a meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), where meeting for worship is usually held.

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George Wilkinson (architect)

George Wilkinson, FRIBA was a British architect who practised largely in Ireland.

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Gillingham F.C.

Gillingham Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Gillingham, Kent, England.

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Graham Leonard

Graham Douglas Leonard KCVO (8 May 1921 – 6 January 2010) was an English Roman Catholic priest and former Anglican bishop.

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Grammar school

A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school, differentiated in recent years from less academic Secondary Modern Schools.

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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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Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Gugulethu Sophia "Gugu" Mbatha-Raw (born 21 April 1983) is an English actress, known for her role as Kelly in Black Mirror, Dido Elizabeth Belle in Belle, Noni Jean in Beyond the Lights, and Plumette in Beauty and the Beast.

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Hailey, Oxfordshire

Hailey is a village and civil parish about north of Witney, Oxfordshire.

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Hellenic Football League

The Hellenic Football League is an English men's football league covering an area including the English counties of Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, southern Buckinghamshire, southern Herefordshire, western Greater London, and northern Wiltshire.

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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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Henry Box School

The Henry Box School is a secondary school with academy status located in Witney in Oxfordshire, England.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Hugh of Lincoln

Hugh of Lincoln (1135/40 – 16 November 1200), also known as Hugh of Avalon, was a French noble, Benedictine and Carthusian monk, bishop of Lincoln in the Kingdom of England, and Catholic saint.

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Institute of Historical Research

The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) is a British educational organisation providing resources and training for historical researchers.

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Jamie Cook (footballer)

James Steven Cook (born 2 August 1979) is an English footballer who plays for Oxford City.

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Jorge Grant

Jorge Edward Grant is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Nottingham Forest.

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King's School, Witney

The King's School is a co-educational independent Christian school in Witney, Oxfordshire, England.

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Labour Party (UK)

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

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Larry Sanders (politician)

Lawrence Sanders (born 25 April 1935) is an American-born British academic, social worker, and Health Spokesperson of the Green Party of England and Wales.

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Lawson D'Ath

Lawson Marc D'Ath (born 24 December 1992) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Milton Keynes Dons.

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Le Touquet

Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, commonly referred to as Le Touquet, is a commune near Etaples,in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.

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Learning disability

Learning disability is a classification that includes several areas of functioning in which a person has difficulty learning in a typical manner, usually caused by an unknown factor or factors.

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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 education authority

Local education authorities (LEAs) are the local councils in England and Wales that are responsible for education within their jurisdiction.

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Lotus Cars

Lotus Cars is a British automotive company that manufactures sports cars and racing cars in its headquarters in Hethel, United Kingdom.

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Lotus F1

Lotus F1 Team was a British Formula One racing team.

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Lourdes

Lourdes (Lorda in Occitan) is a small market town lying in the foothills of the Pyrenees.

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Luton Town F.C.

Luton Town Football Club is a professional association football club based at Kenilworth Road, Luton, Bedfordshire since 1905.

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Malting process

The malting process converts raw grain into malt.

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Market square

The market square (or sometimes, the market place) is a feature of many European and colonial towns.

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Martin Jones (pianist)

Martin Jones (born 4 February 1940 in Witney, England) is an English concert pianist.

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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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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Methodist Church of Great Britain

The Methodist Church of Great Britain is the fourth-largest Christian denomination in Britain and the mother church to Methodists worldwide.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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Middlesbrough F.C.

Middlesbrough Football Club is a professional association football club based in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England.

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Miss Read

Dora Jessie Saint MBE (17 April 1913 – 7 April 2012), née Shafe, best known by the pen name Miss Read, was an English novelist, by profession a schoolmistress.

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Monsignor

Monsignor is an honorific form of address for those members of the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church including bishops, honorary prelates and canons.

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Nave

The nave is the central aisle of a basilica church, or the main body of a church (whether aisled or not) between its rear wall and the far end of its intersection with the transept at the chancel.

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Newsquest

Newsquest Media Group Ltd. is the second largest publisher of regional and local newspapers in the United Kingdom with 205 brands across the UK, publishing online and in print (165 newspaper brands and 40 magazine brands).

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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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Northampton Town F.C.

Northampton Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Northampton, Northamptonshire, England.

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Nottingham Forest F.C.

Nottingham Forest Football Club, often referred to as simply Forest, is a professional football club based in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England.

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Octagon

In geometry, an octagon (from the Greek ὀκτάγωνον oktágōnon, "eight angles") is an eight-sided polygon or 8-gon.

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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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Oxford

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

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Oxford Mail

Oxford Mail is a daily tabloid newspaper in Oxford owned by Newsquest.

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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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Oxford, Witney and Fairford Railway

The Oxford, Witney and Fairford Railway was a single track railway branch line, long, in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.

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Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway

The Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway (OW&WR) was a railway company in England.

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Oxfordshire

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

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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 Guardian

The Oxfordshire Guardian Group was a collection of six free newspapers distributed throughout Oxfordshire in England.

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Patrick Steptoe

Patrick Christopher Steptoe CBE FRS (9 June 1913, Oxford, England – 21 March 1988, Canterbury) was a British obstetrician and gynaecologist and a pioneer of fertility treatment.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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Pevsner Architectural Guides

The Pevsner Architectural Guides are a series of guide books to the architecture of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is the head of the United Kingdom government.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Quakers

Quakers (or Friends) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church.

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Red Dwarf

Red Dwarf is a British science fiction comedy franchise which primarily consists of a television sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999, and on Dave since 2009, gaining a cult following.

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Renault

Groupe Renault is a French multinational automobile manufacturer established in 1899.

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Renault in Formula One

Renault are currently involved in Formula One as a constructor, under the name of Renault Sport Formula One Team.

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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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Robbie Mustoe

Robin "Robbie" Mustoe (born 28 August 1968) is an English retired footballer who now works as a commentator for NBC Sports.

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Robert Courts

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

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Robert Llewellyn

Robert Llewellyn (born 10 March 1956 in Northampton, Northamptonshire) is a British actor, comedian and writer best known as the mechanoid Kryten in the hit TV sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf and as a presenter of the TV engineering gameshow Scrapheap Challenge.

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Rugby Football Union

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is the governing body for rugby union in England.

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Rugby league

Rugby league football is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field.

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Safe seat

A safe seat is an electoral district (constituency) in a legislative body (e.g. Congress, Parliament, City Council) which is regarded as fully secure, for either a certain political party, or the incumbent representative personally or a combination of both.

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Seat of local government

In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre, (in the UK or Australia) a guildhall, a Rathaus (German), or (more rarely) a municipal building, is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality.

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Shaun Woodward

Shaun Anthony Woodward (born 26 October 1958) is a British politician who was the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for St Helens South from 2001 to 2015.

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Simon King (footballer)

Simon Daniel Roy King (born 11 April 1983) is an English retired footballer.

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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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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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Special needs

In the United States, special needs is a term used in clinical diagnostic and functional development to describe individuals who require assistance for disabilities that may be medical, mental, or psychological.

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Spire

A spire is a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, often a skyscraper or a church tower, similar to a steep tented roof.

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St Helens South (UK Parliament constituency)

St Helens South was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Swindon Town F.C.

Swindon Town Football Club is a professional football football club in Swindon, Wiltshire, England.

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The National Archives (United Kingdom)

The National Archives (TNA) is a non-ministerial government department.

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Thomas Henry Wyatt

Thomas Henry Wyatt (9 May 1807 – 5 August 1880) was an Anglo-Irish architect.

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Toleman

Toleman Motorsport was a Formula One constructor based in the UK.

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Toponymy

Toponymy is the study of place names (toponyms), their origins, meanings, use, and typology.

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Transept

A transept (with two semitransepts) is a transverse part of any building, which lies across the main body of the edifice.

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Trinity

The Christian doctrine of the Trinity (from Greek τριάς and τριάδα, from "threefold") holds that God is one but three coeternal consubstantial persons or hypostases—the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit—as "one God in three Divine Persons".

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United Kingdom census, 2011

A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years.

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United Kingdom general election, 1997

The 1997 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 1 May 1997, five years after the previous election on 9 April 1992, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons.

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United Kingdom general election, 2001

The 2001 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 7 June 2001, four years after the previous election on 1 May 1997, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons.

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Unterhaching

Unterhaching is the second largest municipality in the district of Munich in Bavaria, Germany.

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Victoria County History

The Victoria History of the Counties of England, commonly known as the Victoria County History or the VCH, is an English history project which began in 1899 and was dedicated to Queen Victoria with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of England.

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Voluntary controlled school

A voluntary controlled school (VC school) is a state-funded school in England and Wales in which a foundation or trust (usually a Christian denomination) has some formal influence in the running of the school.

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Waitrose Duchy Organic

Waitrose Duchy Organic (formerly Duchy Originals from Waitrose and earlier simply Duchy Originals) is a brand of organic food sold mainly in Waitrose stores in the United Kingdom, Ocado and small independent stores.

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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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William Wilkinson (architect)

William Wilkinson (1819–1901) was a British Gothic Revival architect who practised in Oxford, England.

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Witney (UK Parliament constituency)

Witney is a county constituency in Oxfordshire represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Witney and District League

The Witney and District League is a football competition based in Oxfordshire, England.

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Witney by-election, 2016

The Witney by-election was a UK parliamentary by-election held on 20 October 2016 in the constituency of Witney in Oxfordshire.

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Witney railway station

Witney railway station served the Oxfordshire town of Witney on the Oxford, Witney and Fairford Railway line.

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Witney railway station (goods)

Witney goods station served the Oxfordshire town of Witney on the Oxford, Witney and Fairford Railway.

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Witney Town F.C.

Witney Town A.F.C. was a football club based in Witney, Oxfordshire.

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Wood Green School

Wood Green School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Oxfordshire, England which serves the traditional blanket making and historic town of Witney and its surrounding villages.

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Workhouse

In England and Wales a workhouse, colloquially known as a spike, was a place where those unable to support themselves were offered accommodation and employment.

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Wychwood Brewery

Wychwood Brewery is a brewery in Witney, Oxfordshire, England, owned by Refresh UK, a subsidiary of Marston's.

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References

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

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