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
JET, the Joint European Torus, is the world's largest magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment, located in Oxfordshire, UK. Based on a tokamak design the fusion research facility is a joint European project with a main purpose of opening the w…
Oxford East is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Andrew Smith of the Labour Party.
Radley College /ˈrædli/ is a boys' independent boarding school near Radley, Oxfordshire, England, founded in 1847. The school covers 800 acres (3.2 km2) including playing fields, a golf course, lake and farmland.
Waiting for God is a British sitcom that ran on BBC1 from 1990 to 1994 starring Graham Crowden as Tom and Stephanie Cole as Diana, two spirited residents of a retirement home who spend their time running rings around the home's oppressive management…
Saïd Business School (SBS) is an academic department and the business school of the University of Oxford in England. It is the University of Oxford's centre of learning for undergraduate and graduate students in business, management and finance.
Silbury Hill is a prehistoric artificial chalk mound near Avebury in the English county of Wiltshire.
The Thames Valley region is a loose term for the English counties or parts of those counties roughly following the course of the River Thames as it flows from Oxfordshire in the west to London in the east. It is generally taken to include parts of O…
Oxford Castle is a large, partly ruined Norman medieval castle on the western side of central Oxford in Oxfordshire, England. Most of the original moated, wooden motte and bailey castle was replaced in stone in the 11th century and played an importa…
Wantage is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Ed Vaizey, a Conservative.
St. Edward's School (also colloquially known as "Teddies") is a co-educational independent day and boarding school (referred to as a public school) located in Oxford, England. The school is located on Woodstock Road in the north of Oxford.
South Swindon is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Robert Buckland, a Conservative.
Reading Abbey is a large, ruined abbey in the centre of the town of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire.
Royal Air Force Fairford or more simply RAF Fairford (IATA: FFD, ICAO: EGVA) is a Royal Air Force (RAF) station in Gloucestershire, England which is currently a standby airfield and therefore not in everyday use.
North Swindon is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Justin Tomlinson, a Conservative.
Gatcombe Park is the country residence of Anne, Princess Royal located between the villages of Minchinhampton and Avening in Gloucestershire, England.
The Cotswolds is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 1997 creation by Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, a Conservative.
Box Tunnel is a railway tunnel in Western England, between Bath and Chippenham, dug through Box Hill, and is one of the most significant structures on the Great Western Main Line.
Badminton House is a large country house and Grade I Listed Building in Badminton, Gloucestershire, England, and has been the principal seat of the Dukes of Beaufort since the late 17th century, when the family moved from Raglan Castle, which had be…