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Headington, Oxfordshire

Headington is a pleasant Oxfordshire suburb famous for its stone quarries which between the 14th and 18th centuries supplied most of the stone for the Oxford colleges and churches.

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Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire

Henley held the very first regatta in 1839 and in the year 1851 Prince Albert became Patron of the Regatta, thus giving the event the pretigious title of Royal Henley Regatta.

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Hook Norton, Oxfordshire

This pleasant village is brim full of stone houses and terraces spilling down the side of a hill, topped by an impressive Norman church. Interestingly, in spite of the fact that...

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Hornton, Oxfordshire

Hornton is a picturesque village in Oxfordshire, close to the border of Warwickshire and about 3 miles northwest of Banbury. The attractive homes and cottages are built using the...

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Islip, Oxfordshire

Islip is a pretty place that lies in spacious open countryside where the River Ray flows into the Cherwell.

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Kingham, Oxfordshire

Kingham is a pleasant Cotswolds village in the heart of the Evenlode valley which, in 2004, a Country Life panel judged to be "England's Favourite Village". Not only that but,...

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Kirtlington, Oxfordshire

Kirtlington is an attractive village in Oxfordshire, 6.5 miles west of Bicester. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that in AD 977 King Edward the Martyr held a witenagemot at...

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Little Haseley, Oxfordshire

A picturesque village in Oxfordshire.

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Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire

Attractive Oxfordshire village with historic Iron Age Fort spread over Wittenham Clumps.

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Marsh Baldon, Oxfordshire

Picturesque village in Oxfordshire

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Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire

Minster Lovell, in its beautiful dream-like setting against the gently rising Cotswold landscape, has a history stretching back to Saxon times.

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Nether Worton, Oxfordshire

The picturesque village of Nether Worton lies in the peaceful valley of the River Tew within the boundaries of the area known as the Oxford Hundreds. A timeless quality...

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Nettlebed, Oxfordshire

Nettlebed is a lovely English village in the heart of rural Oxfordshire.

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Oxford, Oxfordshire

Oxford's fame is perhaps second only to Windsor, it is an acclaimed seat of learning with a University whose first college was founded in 1249, almost half a century after the first charter granted to the town by Henry II.

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Standlake, Oxfordshire

The village of Standlake is situated 5 miles south of the market town of Witney, and 10 miles to the south-west of Oxford. The village is situated along the river Windrush which...

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