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BURFORD

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 812 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BURFORD , a See also:

market See also:town In the See also:Woodstock See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Oxfordshire, See also:England, 18 m. W.N.W. of See also:Oxford. Pop. (19o1) 1146. It is pleasantly situated in the valley of the Windrush, the broad, picturesque See also:main See also:street sloping upward from the stream, beside which stands the See also:fine See also:church, to the See also:summit of the See also:ridge flanking the valley on the See also:south, along which runs the high road from Oxford. The church of St See also:John the Baptist has a See also:nave and aisles, mainly Perpendicular in See also:appearance owing to alterations in that See also:period, but actually of earlier. construction, the south See also:aisle flanked by two beautiful chapels and an ornate See also:porch; transepts and a central See also:tower, and See also:choir with flanking chapels. The massive See also:Norman tower contrasts strongly with the delicate Perpendicular See also:spire rising upon it. The church contains many interesting memorials, and, in the nave, a Perpendicular See also:shrine dedicated to St See also:Peter. Near the church is the See also:half-ruined priory See also:house, built in the 17th See also:century, and containing much fine See also:plaster See also:ornament characteristic of the period; a curious See also:chapel adjoins it. See also:William See also:Lenthall, See also:speaker of the See also:Long See also:Parliament, was granted this See also:mansion, died here in 1662, and is buried in the church. In the High Street nearly every house is of some antiquity. The Tolsey or old town See also:hall is noteworthy among them; and under one of the houses is an See also:Early See also:English See also:crypt.

Burford is mentioned as the See also:

scene of a See also:synod in 705; in 752 Cuthred, See also:king of the See also:West See also:Saxons, fighting for See also:independence, here defeated IEthelbald, king of See also:Mercia; and in 1649 the town and See also:district were the scene of victorious operations by See also:Cromwell.

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