Cholsey and Wallingford Railway
The Cholsey and Wallingford Railway is a 2 1⁄2-mile (4 km) long standard gauge heritage railway in the English county of Oxfordshire.
Shrivenham is a large village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse, England, about 5 miles (8 km) southwest of Faringdon. The village is close to the county boundary with Wiltshire and about 7 miles (11 km) east-northeast of Swindon. Shrivenham was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire.
Population: 4,676
Latitude: 51° 35' 54.71" N
Longitude: -1° 39' 16.60" W
The Cholsey and Wallingford Railway is a 2 1⁄2-mile (4 km) long standard gauge heritage railway in the English county of Oxfordshire.
Buscot Park is a country house at Buscot near the town of Faringdon in Oxfordshire. It was built in an austere neoclassical style between 1780 and 1783 for Edward Loveden Townsend. It remained in the Loveden Townsend family until sold in 1859 to Rob…
Westminster College was a teacher training college and college of higher education in England. The college was founded in London in 1851 as a training institute for teachers for Methodist schools, but moved to Oxford in 1959. Before the move, it was…
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South Cerney is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, 3 miles south of Cirencester and close to the border with Wiltshire. It had a population of 3,074 according to the 2001 census, increasing to 3,464 at the 2011 c…
The Sackler Library holds a large portion of the classical, art historical, and archaeological works belonging to the University of Oxford, England.
The Roger Bannister running track, also known as the Oxford University track, is a 400-metres athletics running track and stadium in Oxford, England. It was where Sir Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile on 6 May 1954, when it was known as the…
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The Oriental Institute (commonly referred to as the O.I.) of the University of Oxford, England, is home to the university's Faculty of Oriental Studies. It is engaged in research and teaching of a wide range of disciplines covering modern and histor…
Magpie Lane is a narrow historic lane in central Oxford, England.
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