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"BURFORD, a parish and market town in the hundred of Bampton, in the county of Oxford, 18 miles to the W. of Oxford, and 73 miles from London by road. It is about 10 miles from the Charlbury station of the West Midland railway. The parish is situated on the banks of the river Windrush, a branch of the Thames, and contains the hamlets of Upton and Signett-Burford is a town of great antiquity. Its Saxon name was Beorford, and it was the seat of a synod held in the year 682. ... More"

[The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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